Not without My Daughter
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Like many books I am in the process of registering - I haven't read this one for years. My copy is looking very "pre-loved". I bought it second-hand & it has done the rounds of all my friends, my friend's mums & my mum's friends!
A very powerful book. I remember seeing the movie (after reading book) & still not quite believing that this could possibly be a true story. If this was a "hollywood screen play" - I would have walked out of the movies saying how far fetched it was & what were the writers on when they wrote it!
Someone told me there is a sequel to this book - not sure if that is true or not.
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Blurb:
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"You are here for teh rest of your life. Do you understand? You are not leaving Iran. You are here until you die."
Betty Mahmoody and her husband, Dr Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody ('Moody'), came to Iran from teh USA to meet Moody's family. With them was their 4yo daughter, Mahtob. Appalled by the squalor of their living conditions, horrified by what she saw of a country where women are merely chattels and Westerners are despised, Betty soon became desperate to return to the States. But Moody, and his often vicious family, had other plans. Mother and daughter became prisoners of an alien culture, hostages of an increasingly tyrannical and violent man.
Eventually, Betty was given the name of a man who would plan their perilous route out of Iran, a journey that few women or children had ever made. Their nightmare attempt to return home began in a bewildering snowstorm.....
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A very powerful book. I remember seeing the movie (after reading book) & still not quite believing that this could possibly be a true story. If this was a "hollywood screen play" - I would have walked out of the movies saying how far fetched it was & what were the writers on when they wrote it!
Someone told me there is a sequel to this book - not sure if that is true or not.
.
Blurb:
.
"You are here for teh rest of your life. Do you understand? You are not leaving Iran. You are here until you die."
Betty Mahmoody and her husband, Dr Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody ('Moody'), came to Iran from teh USA to meet Moody's family. With them was their 4yo daughter, Mahtob. Appalled by the squalor of their living conditions, horrified by what she saw of a country where women are merely chattels and Westerners are despised, Betty soon became desperate to return to the States. But Moody, and his often vicious family, had other plans. Mother and daughter became prisoners of an alien culture, hostages of an increasingly tyrannical and violent man.
Eventually, Betty was given the name of a man who would plan their perilous route out of Iran, a journey that few women or children had ever made. Their nightmare attempt to return home began in a bewildering snowstorm.....
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