by Zana Muhsen, Andrew Crofts · Edições Asa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724125718
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«Uma Promessa a Nadia» is the memoir by Zana Muhsen and Andrew Crofts, published by Edições Asa in paperback (158 pages, in Portuguese).
Zana Muhsen recounts that she and her sister Nadia were sold by their father and forced into marriage in Yemen. Zana manages to escape, but leaves behind her son and her sister, already a mother of two children, whom she promises to free. She tells of the public and media campaign and the inaction of relatives and governments.
The work belongs to the Documentos collection from Edições Asa. The original title is A Promise to Nadia. The Portuguese translation is by Tânia Ganho.
For readers of nonfiction and memoirs, with an interest in real testimonies of oppression and the fight for women's rights.
Zana Muhsen, is a British author known for her book Sold: Story of Modern-day Slavery and its follow-up A Promise to Nadia. The books narrate the experiences that she and her sister Nadia Muhsen went through after they were sold into marriage by their father, Muthanna Muhsen, a Yemeni émigré.
