Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
by Salbi, Zainab; Becklund, Laurie
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- 1592402445
- ISBN 13
- 9781592402441
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Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to be Saddam Hussein's personal pilot and her family's life was grafted onto his. Her mother, the beautiful Alia, taught her daughter the skills she needed to survive. A plastic smile. Saying yes. Burying in boxes in her mind the horrors she glimpsed around her. "Learn to erase your memories," she instructed. "He can read eyes." In this richly visual memoir, Salbi describes tyranny as she saw it - through the eyes of a privileged child, a rebellious teenager, a violated wife, and ultimately a public figure fighting to overcome the skill that once kept her alive: silence. Between Two Worlds is a riveting quest for truth that deepens our understanding of the universal themes of power, fear, sexual subjugation, and the question one generation asks the one before it: How could you have let this happen to us?
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- Title
- Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
- Author
- Salbi, Zainab; Becklund, Laurie
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 1592402445
- ISBN 13
- 9781592402441
- Publisher
- Avery
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2006-08-17
- Size
- 7x5x1
- X weight
- 10 oz
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