by Betty Mahmoody, William Hoffer · POCKET · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266025874
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«Jamais sans ma fille» is the autobiographical account by Betty Mahmoody and William Hoffer, published by POCKET in paperback (478 pages, in French).
In August 1984, Betty Mahmoody travels to Iran with her husband and daughter for a two-week vacation. The visit turns into a nightmare when her husband decides the family will stay there forever. Trapped in an environment of religious fanaticism and oppressive laws, Betty fights for two years to regain her freedom and return to the United States with her daughter.
First volume in the «Not Without My Daughter» series; French translation by Marie-Thérèse Cuny.
Recommended for readers of memoirs and real-life accounts, with an interest in survival stories and Iran in the 1980s.
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.
