by Betty Mahmoody · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266082495
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«Au nom de tous les enfants» is the testimony of Miriam Ali and Jana Wain, presented by Betty Mahmoody, in a Pocket paperback (281 pages, in French).
The book recounts the struggle of an English mother to recover her two daughters, sold by their father in Yemen as wives. It also relates the story of Miriam, a woman trapped in a precarious social situation who manages to take the reins of her life.
Originally published in English as Without Mercy (1995); this French edition was published in 1999.
For readers of memoirs, survival stories, and true testimonies about women in adverse circumstances.
Betty Mahmoody is an American author and public speaker. In 1984, during a visit to Iran with her husband and daughter, he refused to let them return to the United States, holding them captive in Iran and subjecting them to constant abuse until she escaped with her daughter to Turkey in 1986. After she and her daughter returned to the US and after her divorce to Moody, she garnered media attention in 1987 when she published Not Without My Daughter, a memoir recounting her captivity in Iran. MGM-Pathé Communications adapted her memoir into a film in 1991.
