ISBN: 0312962886
Godina izdanja: 1997
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Cherry Mosteshar - Unveiled
St. Martin`s Paperbacks, 1997
352 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

One Woman`s Nightmare in Iran

She was trapped behind the veil of hell

Attractive, educated in Oxford, and a respected journalist, Cherry Mosteshar seemed the last woman likely to become a terrified Islamic bride; beaten if a wisp of hair showed from beneath her head scarf, forbidden from leaving the country without her husband`s permission, and legally worth half a man.

A nightmare world of violence and degradation

But Cherry wanted to returned to the homeland she knew as a child. Filled with ideals and longings, she hoped to help the fundamentalist-ruled national to enter the twentieth century. Instead, she ended up a virtual slave in a nation where a woman constantly experiences fear and degradation.

Now her true story can finally be told

This is Cherry`s true story--from her arrival into a monstrous marriage where she became just one of her husband`s wives, to her harrowing years as a victim of his sexual whims and his violent outbursts, to her heroic struggle to maintain her identity while a prisoner stripped of all rights and dignity, to her plight as a terrified victim ready to do anything to save her own life and escape...


Nonfiction, Biography, Iran