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Slave, May 2005
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A Memoir
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May 2005
On Sale: April 25, 2005
Featuring: Mende Nazer
351 pages
ISBN: 1586483188
EAN: 9781586483180
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Mende Nazer's "beautiful and at times heart-wrenching
"account of her struggle to survive modern-day slavery
(The Washington Post) At age twelve, Mende
Nazer lost her childhood. It began one horrific night in
1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village,
setting fire to the village huts and murdering the adults.
They rounded up thirty-one young children, including Mende,
who was eventually sold to a wealthy Arab family in Sudan's
capital city, Khartoum. So began Mende's seven dark years of
enslavement. Normally, Mende's story never would have come
to light, but when she was sent to work for another master-a
diplomat working in London-she made a dramatic break for
freedom. Published to critical acclaim for the
honesty and clarity of its prose, Slave is a story
almost beyond belief. It depicts the strength and dignity of
the Nuba tribe. It recounts the savage cruelty of the
secret, modern-day trade in slaves. Most of all, it is "a
profound meditation on the human ability to survive under
virtually any circumstances." (Publishers Weekly)
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