Jean Sasson - For The Love Of A Son
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Used Very Good
Trade Paperback (large)
Dimensions: 154 x 234 x 24mm
Publication Date: 2010
From the time she was a little girl- Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman. She had witnessed the miserable fate of her grandmother and three aunts- and wished she had been born a boy. As a feisty teenager in Kabul- she was outraged when the Russians invaded her country. After she made a public show of defiance- she had to flee the country for her life.A new life of freedom seemed within her grasp-but her father arranged a traditional marriage to a fellow Afghan- who turned out to be a violent man. Beaten- raped and abused- Maryam found joy in the birth of a baby son. But then her brutal husband stole him away far beyond his mothers reach. For many long years she searched for her lost son- while civil war and Taliban oppression raged back home in Afghanistan. Set against a landscape littered with tragic tales of horrific suffering- Jean Sasson- author of Princess- chronicles the story of one resolute but tormented woman determined to achieve freedom and equality with men....
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