I am Nujood, Age 10 And Divorced

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: William Heinemann
Publisher Place: North Sydney
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: Reprint

Description: 188 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The internationally bestselling true story of the remarkable ten-year-old Yemeni girl who dared to defy her country s most archaic traditions by fighting for a divorce I m a simple village girl whose family had to move to the capital, and I have always obeyed the orders of the men in my family. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today, I have decided to say no. Uplifting and impossible to put down, this is a true story of the ten-year old girl who won a divorce from the man she was forced to marry, courageously defying both Yemeni customs and her own family. Nujood s childhood came to an abrupt end when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness, Nujood tells of abuse at her husband s hands, beginning with the very first night of her married life, and ending the day she slipped away during an errand. Instead of going to the market to buy bread, she took a taxi to the court building. That was the beginning of her odyssey. With the help of a woman lawyer, Chadha Nasser, NGO s and the local press, Nujood finally obtained her freedom, an extraordinary achievement in Yemen, where there is

ISBN: 9781864710359