Not Without My Daughter
By: Betty Mahmoody with William Hoffer.
Contributors: Hoffer, William.
Edition: Movie Tie-In Edition; Corgi edition third reprint
Publisher: Corgi Books; CORGI BOOKS
Published: 1991
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9780552133562
Copyright date: 1987
Subjects: Political prisoners -- Iran.; Americans -- Iran.; Vrouwen.
Description: 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. Apalled 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.

Eventually, Betty was given the name of a man who would plan their perilous route out or Iran, a journey that few women or children had ever made. Their nightmare attempt to return home began in a bewildering snowstorm...
(back cover)
Notes: UK/NZ/AUST