by Betty Mahmoody, William Hoffer · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432296291
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Not Without My Daughter is a true story that recounts the experience of Betty Mahmoody, an American housewife, and her daughter Mahtob, who find themselves trapped in Iran against their will. During a vacation in Tehran, Betty's husband, an Iranian doctor, decides to settle there, forcing Betty to stay in the country under Iranian law unless she separates from her daughter. Betty, trapped in a foreign culture, plans a daring escape through the mountains of Iran and Turkey to regain her freedom and that of her daughter. This moving and terrifying account narrates the arduous ordeal of a woman in her struggle to preserve fundamental human rights.
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.
