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The last girl : my story of captivity and my fight against the Islamic State

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`Telling my story of first, surviving genocide and then, as a captive of ISIS is not easy, but people must know.' The remarkable and courageous story of Nadia Murad, a twenty-three-year-old Yazidi woman who is working with Amal Clooney to challenge the world to fight ISIS on behalf on her people.

With a foreword by Amal ClooneyA Nobel Peace Prize nominee and the first Goodwill Ambassador the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking of the United Nations and winner of the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize, Nadia Murad is a courageous young woman who has endured unimaginable tragedy (losing eighteen members of her family) and degradation through sexual enslavement to ISIS. But she has fought back. This inspiring memoir takes us from her peaceful childhood in a remote village in Iraq through loss and brutality to safety in Germany. Courage and testimony can change the world: this is one of those books.

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Virago Press Ltd
0349009740 / 9780349009742
Hardback
09/11/2017
United Kingdom
English
xi, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour), map (black and white)
24 cm
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Originally published: New York: Tim Duggan Books.