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Not Without My Daughter
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Not Without My Daughter (1987) (edit title/settings)

by Betty Mahmoody (Author) (edit contributors)

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'You are here for the rest of your life. Do you understand? You are not leaving Iran. You are here until you die.' Betty Mahmoody and her husband, Dr Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody ('Moody'), came to Iran from the USA to meet Moody's family. With them was their four-year-old daughter, Mahtob. Appalled... read more

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  • “Taraf is the Iranian conversational custom of making polite but vacant offers.”
    Chapter Five (p. 83).
  • “I remember the ordeal of labour and the intense pain that accompanies the onset of life. Perhaps it is a warning of what may come in the years ahead.”
    Chapter Fifteen (p. 219).

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My daughter dozed in her seat next to the window of a British Airways jetliner, her red-brown curls encircling her face, tumbling haphazardly below her shoulders.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Betty Mahmoody (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: St Martin
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1987
ISBN: 0312010737
Page Count: 420

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  • Library of Congress: HQ1413.M33 A3 1987
  • Dewey: 920.72

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