num_pages: 288
description: Ten years ago Zana Muhsen escaped from the life of slavery in the Yemen into which her father had sold her as a child bride, leaving behind her baby son, her sister Nadia, and Nadia's two small children. As she described so powerfully in her book Sold, Zana made a solemn vow to Nadia that she would do everything she possibly could obtain their freedom as well. This book tells the story of those ten years; of the family's lone campaign against the Yemeni authorities; of the refusal of their own government in London to help; and of the despair that forced them into a desperate deal with an unofficial military-style organization specializing in the recovery of abducted children.
language: English
title: A Promise to Nadia: A True Story of a British Slave in the Yemen
titlecomplete: A Promise to Nadia: A True Story of a British Slave in the Yemen
genres: Autobiography, Feminism, Islam, Biography Memoir, Biography, True Story, Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction, True Crime
ratings_count: 1039
publisher: Little, Brown Book Group