by Betty Mahmoody, William Hoffer · Planeta Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432217326
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«No sin mi hija» is the autobiographical account by Betty Mahmoody and William Hoffer, published by Planeta Publishing in paperback (446 pages, in Spanish).
In August 1984, Betty Mahmoody travels to Tehran with her Iranian husband and her daughter Mahtob for a vacation that turns into a trap: her husband decides to settle in Iran and, protected by local law, keeps her there unless she agrees to be separated from the child. Betty, trapped in an unfamiliar culture, plans to flee through the mountains towards Turkey.
Work originally published in 1987 as «Not Without My Daughter». This edition belongs to the Bestseller collection by Booket (no. 1139).
For those who enjoy biographies and memoirs of real events, especially stories of survival and cultural clash.
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.
