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Title: Slave
Condition: New
Subtitle: The True Story of a Girl's Lost Childhood and Her FIght for Survival
ISBN-10: 1844081168
EAN: 9781844081165
ISBN: 9781844081165
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 06/12/2007
Description: Mende Nazer's happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her village in the remote Nuba mountains of Sudan. They hacked down terrified villagers, raped the women and abducted the children. Mende was them. She was taken and sold to an Arab woman in Khartoum. She was stripped of her name and her freedom. For seven long years she was kept as a domestic slave, an 'abid', without any pay or a single day off. Her food was the leftover scraps and her bed was the floor of the locked-up garden shed. She endured this harsh and lonely existence without knowing whether her family was alive or dead, for seven long years. Passed on by her master, like a parcel, to a relative in London, Mende eventually managed to escape to freedom. Slave is a shocking first-person insight into the modern day slave trade. It is also a fascinating memoir of an African childhood and a moving testimony to a young girl's indomitable spirit in the face of adversity.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 196mm
Item Length: 126mm
Item Width: 24mm
Item Weight: 260g
Author: Damien Lewis, Mende Nazer
Genre: History
Topic: Biography
Release Year: 2007

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