The Last Girl

The Last Girl offers powerful insight into the barbarity the Yazidi suffered alongside glimpses into their mystical culture … this is an important book by a brave woman, fresh testament to humankind’s potential for chilling and inexplicable evil * The Times *Courageous … Anyone who wants to understand the so called Islamic State should read The Last Girl * The Economist *This devastating memoir unflinchingly recounts her experiences and questions the complicity of witnesses who acquiesced in the suffering of others * New Yorker *Nadia Murad has put a human face on one of the world’s most complicated and intractable conflicts * Sunday Business Post *Her book is sobering - and an inspiration * People *A harrowing memoir… Intricate in historical context… The Last Girl leaves readers with urgent, incendiary questions * New York Times Book Review *Murad gives us a window on the atrocities that destroyed her family and nearly wiped out her vulnerable community. This is a courageous memoir that serves as an important step toward holding to account those who committed horrific crimes * Washington Post *This is likely the most inspiring feminist memoir out this year * Bustle *A devastating yet ultimately inspiring memoir that doubles as an urgent call to action * Kirkus *Brilliant and intense… a clear-eyed account of ISIS’s cruelty * Publishers Weekly *Powerful… A heartbreaking elegy to a lost community * Booklist *

Nadia Murad is a human rights activist. She is the recipient of the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize and the Sakharov Prize, and is the UN’s first Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. Together with Yazda, a Yazidi rights organization, she is currently working to bring the Islamic State before the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. She is also the founder of Nadia’s Initiative, a programme dedicated to helping survivors of genocide and human trafficking to heal and rebuild their communities.