In her powerful new memoir, the #1 bestselling author of Infidel tells the stirring story of her search for a new life as she tries to reconcile her Islamic past with her passionate adherence to democracy and Western values. A unique blend of personal narrative and reportage, moving, engaging, wryly funny at times, Nomad gives us an inside view of her battle for equality in the face of considerable odds.Ayaan captured the world's attention with Infidel, the eye-opening memoir of her childhood in Africa and Saudi Arabia, and her escape to Holland en route to a forced marriage in Canada. Nomad is the story of what happened after the Dutch director with whom she made a documentary about the domestic abuse of Muslim women was murdered by a radical Islamist and death threats forced her into hiding; of her bid to start a new life in America; of her renewed contact with her family on her father's death; and of her attempts to live by her adopted prin
Categories:
- Religion & Spirituality
- Islam
- Women in Islam
- Islam
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Author : Hirsi Ali, Ayaan
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2010-05-18
Number Of Pages : 277
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0307398501
ISBN-13 : 9780307398505
Item weight : 1.1 lb
Dimensions : 1.1 in x 6 in x 8.9 in
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