Not Without My Daughter
By: Betty Mahmoody with William Hoffer.
Contributors: Hoffer, William.
Edition: Movie Tie-In Edition; St. Martin's Paperbacks edition (14)
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9780312925888
Copyright date: 1991
Subjects: Mahmoody, Betty; Women -- United States -- Biography; Women -- Iran -- Biography; Wife abuse -- Iran; Iran -- Social life and customs
Description: In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem faith, in a land where women are near-slaves and Americans are despised. Their only hope for escape lay in a dangerous underground that would not take her child...

Now the true story of this courageous woman and her breathtaking odyssey bursts upon the screen in the Pathe Entertainment production starring Academy Award-winner Sally Field!
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