Yes this book had a few grammatical errors but that didn't stop me feeling the emotions that backed each and every word. The men are a law unto themselves.” Well, after reading this book I don't have to imagine any of this, I felt it.

They are completely within the power of the men in their families. The two innocent girls believed they were going on “a holiday of a life time.” Imagine their horror when they realized their lives no longer belonged to them imagine how they felt knowing they would never again possess any kind of freedom imagine a “medieval world where the women have virtually no rights and absolutely no control of their lives. Zana and her younger sister, Nadia, were sold by their own horrifically worthless father as wives to two fourteen year old boys in the Yemen. From the hype this story created it’s hard to believe everything that was said is true, but once you read the book yourself you’ll understand it is real, this stuff does happen and unfortunately there's not much we can do about it. Once this book was released governments went to war, high ranking officials from various countries came to Zana’s aid and the social media only had eyes for this captivating tale. This book was written in 1992 and received immediate attention from all over the globe. Along with her ghost writer, Andrew Crofts, Muhsen tells her true account of modern day slavery. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.'SOLD'is a true story authored by a strong-willed force to be reckoned with. A moving and harrowing story of British girl forced into marriage in Yemen. After eight years of misery and humiliation Zana succeeded in escaping, but her sister is still there, and it seems likely that she will now never leave the country where she has spent more than half her life.

They had to adapt to a completely alien way of life, with no running water, dung-plastered walls, frequent beatings, and the ordeal of childbirth on bare floors with only old women in attendance. Ages 15 and 13 respectively, Zana and her sister discovered that they had been literally sold into marriage, and that on their arrival they were virtually prisoners.

When her father told her she was to spend a holiday with relatives in North Yemen, she jumped at the chance. A newly updated edition of a young girls' account of her terrifying experiences with being sold by her father as a modern day sex slave in Yemen Zana Muhsen, born and bred in Birmingham, is of Yemeni origin.

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