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Infidel  Cover Image Book Book

Infidel

Hirsi Ali, Ayaan 1969- (author.). Hitchens, Christopher, (writer of foreword.).

Summary: The author of The Caged Virgin recounts the story of her life, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia and escape from a forced marriage to her efforts to promote women's rights while surviving numerous threats to her safety.

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  • ISBN: 9780743289696
  • Physical Description: xix, 361 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: First Free Press Paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Atria, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes reading group guide.
Formatted Contents Note: My childhood: Bloodlines -- Under the Talal tree -- Playing tag in Allah's Palace -- Weeping orphans and widowed wives -- Secret rendezvous, sex, and the scent of Sukumawiki -- Doubt and defiance -- Disillusion and deceit -- Refugees -- Abeh -- My freedom: Running away -- A trial by the Elders -- Haweya -- Leiden -- Leaving God -- Threats -- Politics -- The murder of Theo -- Epilogue: The letter of the law.
Original Version Note:
Originally published :New York : Free Press, c2007.
Subject: Hirsi Ali, Ayaan -- 1969-
Politicians -- Netherlands -- Biography
Muslims -- Netherlands -- Biography
Refugees -- Netherlands -- Biography
Genre: Autobiographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Russell and District Regional Library.

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Russell Library BIO 949.207 HIR (Text) 36730000104711 Biography Volume hold Available -

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