by Betty Mahmoody, William Hoffer · RBA. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447306961
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«No sin mi hija» is the autobiographical account by Betty Mahmoody and William Hoffer, published by RBA in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
In 1984, Betty Mahmoody, a Michigan housewife, travels with her Iranian husband to Iran for a two-week vacation. She and her four-year-old daughter Mahtob are held captive in a country where women and Americans are despised. This is the true story of their captivity and her struggle to escape without abandoning her daughter.
Part of La Vanguardia's «Cine para leer» collection, issue number 6. Original work: «Not Without My Daughter».
For readers of biographies, memoirs, and true survival accounts, with particular interest in stories set in the Middle East.
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.
