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Title	:	Sold
Author	:	Zana Muhsen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1994 by Little, Brown Book Group (first published 1991)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir

Sold Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

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Zana Muhsen, born and bred in Birmingham, is of Yemeni origin. When her father told her she was to spend a holiday with relatives in North Yemen, she jumped at the chance. Aged 15 and 13 respectively, Zana and her sister discovered that they had been literally sold into marriage, and that on their arrival they were virtually prisoners. They had to adapt to a completely alien way of life, with no running water, dung-plastered walls, frequent beatings, and the ordeal of childbirth on bare floors with only old women in attendance. After eight years of misery and humiliation Zana succeeded in escaping, but her sister is still there, and it seems likely that she will now never leave the country where she has spent more than half her life. This is an updated edition of Zana's account of her experiences.

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Original Title:	Sold
ISBN:	0751509515 (ISBN13: 9780751509519)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.14 From 5360 Users | 317 Reviews

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it's bad written story...the story is interesting but it's written in boring way....I didn't like the cover of the book it gives you the idea (oh,Muslim women being treated like slave) but the story is about a bully father and from pg 15 you understand that her mom and dad are not married and her father goes to the pub with his friends( so he is not practicing Muslim)...so all the story is about bully father with loads of culture problems treating his daughters ( and even you could say sons

This was an extremely traumatic story, but due to the writing style, I felt somewhat distant from it. I am relieved that the UK has completely overhauled it's attitude to forced marriages and Zana's mother would get help and support to get her children out of this situation if it happened now. I don't want to sound unsympathetic about the people in this book, but I was surprised by how much Zana's mother trusted their father. He had already taken two of her children out of the country and failed

Very sad and tragic, what happened to these girls, at the hands of their own bastard father. Another book, though, that I cannot rate with a number of stars because it's somebody's LIFE we're talking about.For anyone who reads this, know that there was a follow up book, A Promise to Nadia. The first one, Sold, details how the sister, Zana, eventually got out of Yemen. A Promise to Nadia haven't read it yet) is said to detail the saga of getting the sister, Nadia, out of Yemen. Don't know yet if

Holy shit.Seriously, I have little to no words to describe this book. It's not the most well-written piece in the world, but I'll cut her some slack for being ripped from her native country of England at the young age of 16 and forced to speak another language for 8 years while she was beaten, raped, enslaved, and lied to, and as an added bonus, she got to watch her younger sister go through the same shit in the next town over. See that run-on sentence? We can't all write beautifully when we're

Zana and Nadia's sold them and two older siblings to people in his homeland - Yemen. Their mother would have never allowed it to happen had she known. Instead she thought the kids were going on vacation in Yemen. It is appalling that countries allow their citizens to be treated this way. It is surprising after losing her first two kids that their mother would have allowed Zana and Nadia to go. What is really shameful is how Yemen allows this to happen and turns their back on the children this is

This book absolutely ticks every box for me when it comes to a captivating story: innocence, conflict, determination, hope, and survival. It is all packaged in a book that delivers a well written, easy to read flow that I could not put down.The synopsis is well enough described throughout the reviews and book description. What isn't described is the journey of emotion the author takes you on. There is no glossing over the life of this woman, a child sold into marriage in a foreign country, and

Well written book. Living in the contemporary Middle East, it was hard to imagine that this happens but in small towns and underdeveloped countries, undoubtedly it does. My heart went out to the author as she retold her situation and her fathers unwillingness to accept his upbringing of daughters in a western world.