The Girl Who Escaped Isis: This Is My Story

by Andrea C. Hoffmann and Farida Khalaf

Book Overview

A rare and riveting first-hand account of the terror and torture inflicted by ISIS on young Iraqi Yazidi women. Devastating and inspiring, this is an astonishing, intimate account of courage and hope... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501152335
• ISBN13: 9781501152337
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Not too gory, but heart-breaking and then heart-warming at the end

This gives a wonderful insight into the daily horrors happening in ISIS territories. Ruthless destruction, rape, and murder, always seem so far away from our first-world problems, but these kinds of books can open your eyes. Not to mention that the entire political and social climate in the Mid-East since the 90's has painted a s**t picture for them, and Westerners can't seem to see the fact that NOT everyone, not even most people, are involved in terrorist groups. Atrocities are happening to regular citizens in all the countries over there, more than they are happening to Westerners. Similar books that shed light on these issues are: Reading Lolita in Tehran (great for those who love literature about literature), Mayada: Daughter of Iraq, A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner (both by Khaled Hosseini, both historical fiction novels that have dramatic and beautiful plots high-lighting the issues of modern Afghanistan.