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The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya
Grove Press
September 2013
On Sale: September 3, 2013
272 pages
ISBN: 0802121721
EAN: 9780802121721
Kindle: B00CIWZ7TW
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Non-Fiction Biography
Soraya was just fifteen, a schoolgirl in the coastal town of
Sirte, when she was given the honor of presenting a bouquet
of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, “the Guide,” on a visit he
was making to her school the following week. This one
meeting—a presentation of flowers, a pat on the head from
Gaddafi—changed Soraya’s life forever. Soon afterwards, she
was summoned to Bab al-Azizia, Gaddafi’s palatial compound
near Tripoli, where she joined a number of young women who
were violently abused, raped and degraded by Gaddafi.
Heartwrenchingly tragic but ultimately redemptive, Soraya’s
story is the first one of many that are just now beginning
to be heard. But sex and rape remain the highest taboo in
Libya, and women like Soraya (whose identity is protected by
a pseudonym here) risk being disowned or even killed by
their dishonored family members. In Gaddafi’s Harem, an instant bestseller on
publication in France, where it has already sold more than
100,000 copies in hardcover, Le Monde special
correspondent Annick Cojean gives a voice to Soraya’s story,
and supplements her investigation into Gaddafi’s abuses of
power through interviews with people who knew Soraya, as
well as with other women who were abused by Gaddafi.
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