by Zana Muhsen · Edições Asa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724112961
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«Vendidas!» is the autobiographical account by Zana Muhsen, published by Edições Asa in paperback (239 pages, in Portuguese).
Zana Muhsen, raised in Birmingham, recounts how her father took her and her sister, aged 15 and 13, to North Yemen and sold them into marriage. There they lived almost as prisoners, without running water, enduring beatings and giving birth on the floor. The account describes eight years of captivity and the struggle to survive in an alien culture.
Part of the Documentos collection from Edições Asa. Original title in English: Sold; Portuguese translation by João Luiz Gomes.
For readers interested in memoirs and real-life testimonies about the situation of women, oppression and survival in extreme cultural contexts.
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.
