For the Love of a Son

One Afghan Woman's Quest for her Stolen Child

Jean Sasson

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English

Bantam
01 April 2011

Biography; Biography: general; True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; Islam

From the bestselling author of the Princess trilogy comes the story of one woman's fight for equality and the search for her son, set against an Afghan and Saudi backdrop.

From the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman.

She had witnessed the miserable fate of her grandmother and three aunts, and wished she had been born a boy. As a feisty teenager in Kabul, she was outraged when the Russians invaded her country. After she made a public show of defiance, she had to flee the country for her life.

A new life of freedom seemed within her grasp,but her father arranged a traditional marriage to a fellow Afghan, who turned out to be a violent man.

Beaten, raped and abused, Maryam found joy in the birth of a baby son. But then her brutal husband stole him away far beyond his mother's reach. For many long years she searched for her lost son, while civil war and Taliban oppression raged back home in Afghanistan.

Set against a landscape littered with tragic tales of horrific suffering, Jean Sasson, author of Princess, chronicles the story of one resolute but tormented woman determined to achieve freedom and equality with men.

By: Jean Sasson
Imprint: Bantam
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 110mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 245g
ISBN: 9780553820201
ISBN 10: 0553820206
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 01 April 2011
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General/trade , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jean Sasson is the sharp-eyed and compassionate chronicler of women's lives in the Muslim world. Author of the worldwide bestsellers Princess, Daughters of Arabia, Desert Royal, Mayada: Daughter of Iraq, Love in a Torn Land and Growing Up Bin Laden, she lived in Saudi Arabia for twelve years, and has travelled throughout the Middle East for thirty years. She currently makes her home in the Southern United States.