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Not without my daughter / Betty Mahmoody

By: Mahmoody, BettyMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London : Corgi Books, c1987. Description: 522 p. ; 19 cmISBN: 9780552152167DDC classification: 305.4092 MAH
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305.4092 MAH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 18153
English Lending English Lending Villa College Library
Villa College Library
305.4092 MAH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 18154
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SUMMARY:

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....

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