A Promise to Nadia: A True Story of a British Slave in the Yemen by Zana Muhsen

A Promise to Nadia: A True Story of a British Slave in the Yemen

Zana Muhsen

288 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography memoir emotional slow-paced

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Ten years previously Zana Muhsen escaped from the life of slavery in the Yemen into which her father had sold her as a child bride, leaving behind her baby son, her sister Nadia, and Nadia's two small children. As she described so powerfully in he...

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