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The extraordinary story of a young Sudanese girl who was kidnapped and sold into slavery and how she finally escaped to freedom.

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Mende Nazer's happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her village in the remote Nuba mountains of Sudan. They hacked down terrified villagers, raped the women and abducted the children. Mende was one of them. She was taken and sold to an Arab woman in Khartoum. She was stripped of her name and her freedom. For seven long years she was kept as a domestic slave, an 'abid', without any pay or a single day off. Her food was the leftover scraps and her bed was the floor of the locked-up garden shed. She endured this harsh and lonely existence without knowing whether her family was alive or dead, for seven long years. Passed on by her master, like a parcel, to a relative in London, Mende eventually managed to escape to freedom.SLAVE is a shocking first-person insight into the modern day slave trade. It is also a fascinating memoir of an African childhood and a moving testimony to a young girl's indomitable spirit in the face of adversity.

Notes

* Author PR activity throughout the UK and Ireland to include media interviews. * Reviews and feature coverage anticipated across the National press and women's magazines. * Serialisation. * Submitted for trade promotions.

Author Biography

After her escape from slavery, Mende Nazer has been granted asylum in the UK, and works to publicise the plight of modern-day slaves around the world.

Review

a powerful memoir shocking and very moving her book is an eloquent testament to the ability of a brave soul to survive, and to the need to bring an end to slavery. - Susan McKay, Sunday Tribune All the cliches of such survival stories - life-affirming, heartwarming - are inadequate to describe the emotional impact of [Mende s] eventual deliverance. - Observer An eloquent testament to the ability of a brave soul to survive, and to the need to bring an end to slavery - Sunday Tribune A disturbing first-person insight into the 21st century slave trade - Express This remarkable woman...brilliantly blows the lid off the scandal of the thousands of forgotten people who are still being abducted and enslaved in Sudan. - Daily Mail

Promotional

* Author PR activity throughout the UK and Ireland to include media interviews. * Reviews and feature coverage anticipated across the National press and women's magazines. * Serialisation. * Submitted for trade promotions.

Prizes

Winner of Index Book Award 2004 (UK)Short-listed for CWA Daggers: Non-fiction 2004 (UK)

Long Description

Mende Nazer's happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her village in the remote Nuba mountains of Sudan. They hacked down terrified villagers, raped the women and abducted the children. Mende was one of them. She was taken and sold to an Arab woman in Khartoum. She was stripped of her name and her freedom. For seven long years she was kept as a domestic slave, an 'abid', without any pay or a single day off. Her food was the leftover scraps and her bed was the floor of the locked-up garden shed. She endured this harsh and lonely existence without knowing whether her family was alive or dead, for seven long years. Passed on by her master, like a parcel, to a relative in London, Mende eventually managed to escape to freedom.SLAVE is a shocking first-person insight into the modern day slave trade. It is also a fascinating memoir of an African childhood and a moving testimony to a young girl's indomitable spirit in the face of adversity.

Review Quote

a powerful memoir...shocking and very moving...her book is an eloquent testament to the ability of a brave soul to survive, and to the need to bring an end to slavery.

Promotional "Headline"

The extraordinary story of a young Sudanese girl who was kidnapped and sold into slavery and how she finally escaped to freedom.

Description for Sales People

SLAVE is both a shocking first-person insight into the modern-day slave trade and a moving testimony to a young girl's indomitable spirit in the face of adversity and shattered dreams

Details ISBN1844081168 Author Mende Nazer Pages 336 Publisher Little, Brown Book Group ISBN-10 1844081168 ISBN-13 9781844081165 Format Paperback Imprint Virago Press Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 306.362092 Media Book Series Virago Press Language English Edition 07000th Subtitle The True Story of a Girl's Lost Childhood and Her FIght for Survival Short Title Slave UK Release Date 2007-12-06 Year 2007 Publication Date 2007-12-06 Audience General AU Release Date 1999-12-31 NZ Release Date 1999-12-31 We've got this

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