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Not without My Daughter (Paperback)
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Short Description for Not without My DaughterThe author and her husband came to Iran from the USA to meet her husband's family. With them was their four-year-old daughter, Mahtob. Betty soon became desperate to return to the States but her husband and his family had other plans. This is the true story of one woman's struggle to keep her child and win freedom for them both.
Full description- Publisher: Corgi Books
- Published: 05 July 2004
- Format: Paperback 521 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Civil Rights & Citizenship | Political Oppression & Persecution
- ISBN 13: 9780552152167 ISBN 10: 0552152161
- Sales rank: 13,480
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Full description for Not without My Daughter
'You are here for the 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 the USA to meet Moody's family. With them was their four-year-old 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. Betty began to try to arrange an escape. Evading Moody's sinister spy network, she secretly met sympathisers opposed to Khomeini's savage regime. But every scheme that was suggested to her meant leaving Mahtob behind for ever...
