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The Last Girl
- Narrator
- Ilyana Kadushin
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 9 November 2017
- Run Time
- 12 hours 16 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Memoirs
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
With a foreword by Amal Clooney
A Nobel Peace Prize nominee and the first Goodwill Ambassador the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking of the United Nations and winner of the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize, Nadia Murad is a courageous young woman who has endured unimaginable tragedy (losing eighteen members of her family) and degradation through sexual enslavement to ISIS. But she has fought back.
This inspiring memoir takes us from her peaceful childhood in a remote village in Iraq through loss and brutality to safety in Germany. Courage and testimony can change the world: this is one of those books.
Critics Review
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The Last Girl offers powerful insight into the barbarity the Yazidi suffered alongside glimpses into their mystical culture . . . this is an important book by a brave woman, fresh testament to humankind's potential for chilling and inexplicable evil
The Times
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Courageous . . . Anyone who wants to understand the so called Islamic State should read The Last Girl
The Economist
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This devastating memoir unflinchingly recounts her experiences and questions the complicity of witnesses who acquiesced in the suffering of others
New Yorker
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Nadia Murad has put a human face on one of the world's most complicated and intractable conflicts
Sunday Business Post
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Her book is sobering - and an inspiration
People
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A harrowing memoir... Intricate in historical context... The Last Girl leaves readers with urgent, incendiary questions
New York Times Book Review
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Murad gives us a window on the atrocities that destroyed her family and nearly wiped out her vulnerable community. This is a courageous memoir that serves as an important step toward holding to account those who committed horrific crimes
Washington Post
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This is likely the most inspiring feminist memoir out this year
Bustle
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A devastating yet ultimately inspiring memoir that doubles as an urgent call to action
Kirkus
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Brilliant and intense... a clear-eyed account of ISIS's cruelty
Publishers Weekly
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Powerful... A heartbreaking elegy to a lost community
Booklist
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Details
- Author
- Nadia Murad & Jenna Krajeski
- Narrator
- Ilyana Kadushin
- Duration
- 12 hours 16 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 November 2017
- ISBN
- 9781405540049
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Memoirs
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
`Telling my story of first, surviving genocide and then, as a captive of ISIS is not easy, but people must know.' The remarkable and courageous story of Nadia Murad, a twenty-three-year-old Yazidi woman who is working with Amal Clooney to challenge the world to fight ISIS on behalf on her people. With a foreword by Amal ClooneyA Nobel Peace Prize nominee and the first Goodwill Ambassador the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking of the United Nations and winner of the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize, Nadia Murad is a courageous young woman who has endured unimaginable tragedy (losing eighteen members of her family) and degradation through sexual enslavement to ISIS. But she has fought back.This inspiring memoir takes us from her peaceful childhood in a remote village in Iraq through loss and brutality to safety in Germany. Courage and testimony can change the world: this is one of those books.
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