Book description
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 mother's 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.
Jean Sasson
is the sharp-eyed and compassionate chronicler of women's lives in the
Muslim world. Author of the worldwide bestsellers
Princess
,
Daughters of Arabia
,
Desert Royal, Mayada: Daughter of Iraq,
Love in a Torn Land
and
Growing Up Bin Laden
, she lived in Saudi Arabia for twelve years, and has travelled
throughout the Middle East for thirty years. She currently makes her
home in the Southern United States.
