Burned Alive
$24.79
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2005
Summary
The shocking true story of a young girl from the West Bank, who survived an attempted honour killing.
When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one’s family and was punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of arranging her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the family’s clothes, he crept up on her, poured petrol over her and set her alight.<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553816303 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0553816306 |
| Author: | Souad |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bantam Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2005 |
| Weight: | 173g |
| Dimensions: | 175mm x 106mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Bantam (UK) |
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Critics Review
‘The terrifying memoir of a young Palestinian woman…Her ordeal reveals the scandalous treatment of women that is the real human rights abuse in the West Bank’
‘The terrifying memoir of a young Palestinian woman…Her ordeal reveals the scandalous treatment of women that is the real human rights abuse in the West Bank’ – Sunday Telegraph
About The Author
Souad
Souad now lives in Europe. She is married with three children.
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