by Zana Muhsen, Andrew Crofts · Planeta Pub Corp · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432240317
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«Vendidas» is the autobiographical account by Zana Muhsen and Andrew Crofts, published by Planeta/Seix Barral in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
Zana Muhsen recounts how, at fifteen, she travels with her sister to Yemen for a vacation and discovers that their father has sold them into marriage. The two young women are trapped in an oppressive culture and suffer abuse and forced labor for years. Zana's mother tries to rescue her daughters with the help of British journalists.
Originally published in 1991 as «Sold», this Spanish edition includes a foreword by Betty Mahmoody and features photographic plates.
For readers of memoirs and true testimonies, with an interest in denouncing the oppression of women and in stories of resistance.
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.
