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Escape from Syria
Thomas Dunne Books
June 2013
On Sale: June 18, 2013
320 pages
ISBN: 1250030277
EAN: 9781250030276
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In the vein of Not Without My Daughter, a memoir
recounting a mother's crusade to rescue her kidnapped
daughter from her abusive ex-husband during the tumultuous
days of the Arab Spring
In the middle of one of
the worst civil wars in Syria's history, Louise Monaghan
walked across a heavily guarded border to save her
six-year-old child from the father who had callously
snatched her from her home in Cyprus. Fearing for her
daughter's future under the oppressive Sharia law, the Irish
mother returned to her ex-husband, Mostafa Assad, to bide
her time until she could escape with her
daughter.
Once in his homeland, she too was held
captive, locked inside a run-down house with little food and
no hope of deliverance. Severely beaten by Mostafa —she was
even left unconscious on the ground in front of their
child—she and her little girl miraculously
escaped.
This suspenseful account will pull at your
heartstrings, enveloping you in harrowing events that no
mother would dare imagine and culminating with the triumphal
feats this mother achieved. Smuggled across a heavily
patrolled mountain range in the dead of night through bomb
attacks and sniper fire, Monaghan and her daughter speak to
the transcendent bond between mother and child.
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