Betty Mahmoody
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| Title | : | Not Without My Daughter |
| Author | : | Betty Mahmoody |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 528 pages |
| Published | : | July 5th 2004 by Transworld Publishers Ltd (first published 1987) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. Cultural. Iran. Biography Memoir. Drama |
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In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation that turned into a permanent stay. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem faith, in a land where women are near-slaves and Americans despised. Their only hope for escape lay in a dangerous underground that would not take her child.Itemize Books Supposing Not Without My Daughter
| Original Title: | Not Without My Daughter |
| ISBN: | 0552152161 (ISBN13: 9780552152167) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
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Fierce, Frightening, and Real This was a 500+ book that I finished within the span of two days.. This autobiography will make your soul weep. It is a MUST-READ.This story completely took my breath away. There aren't enough words to describe the suffering and heartache of the human condition in Not Without My Daughter. For those of you who aren't familiar with the story, I'll provide a very brief overview. Betty Mahmoody agrees to visit Iran with her husband, Moody, and daughter, Mahtob, despiteId like to first point out that I was born in Iran and spent the first six years of my life there. We visited frequently until shortly after all the troubles started. Ive never been back and I cant possibly imagine doing so. Id rather keep the sweet memories that I had and not tarnish them with negative ones that I so often hear about. When the movie, Not Without My Daughter came out back in 1991, I remember hearing that many of my fellow countrymen boycotted it. They resented the fact that
The untruths begin with the cover of the book, which features the image of a woman who is dressed in a manner which is decidedly not Iranian. So, even before you have read a single word, you have been given an image that is not authentic.The book is carefully packaged to cater to the American people's fears and prejudices. Also, the book isn't an isolated phenomenon. It's a product of a veritable cottage industry of horror stories and black-and-white portrayals of Muslim societies (Persepolis,
"Taraf is the Iranian conversational custom of making polite but vacant offers. Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody This was a really harrowing read. Reading it, I could not get over Betty's courage and how frightened and alone she must have felt. It's a page turner and is unputdownable.I also liked very much how Betty detailed the kindness of the people involved in helping her. The actual escape itself is nail biting. I also saw this movie but did not care for it. The book is way more
My parents' divorce wasnt the most amicable one out there, although you wouldnt know it because theyre pretty good friends now. At the time, my dad was living and working in Mexico as a surgeon, which meant that every other weekend found my brother and I listlessly cooped up in my dads clinic in Zaragoza, a very poor community on the outskirts of Juarez. People made their homes out of cinder blocks, durable cardboard, and any other supplies they could find. It was like night and day compared to
I had no idea this book was such a controversial read until reading some of the reviews, some believe the story has racist undertones, and then there are some who say the story is nothing but a fabrication of a vengeful wife. These are my thoughts of what I felt when I read this book.The story begins with Bettys sense of panic as she sits in a plane thousands of feet above sea level, suddenly feeling shed made a terrible mistake. Wondering why she'd agreed to come to Iran, when her own country
Such a harrowing story! After years of marriage and a beautiful child together, Betty agrees to travel with her husband to Iran to visit his family. There he becomes a completely different person, and refuses to let her and their daughter leave. At one point she is literally held prisoner by her husband, and her journey out of Iran with her daughter actually turned her hair gray. This isn't completely a catalog of how awful Iran is, though. She gives its beauties their due, and also details
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