WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story.
It is a call to action, a testament to the human will to survive, and a love letter to a lost country, a fragile community, and a family torn apart by war..
Today, Nadia\'s story--as a witness to the Islamic State\'s brutality, a survivor of rape, a refugee, a Yazidi--has forced the world to pay attention to an ongoing genocide.
Finally, she managed a narrow escape through the streets of Mosul, finding shelter in the home of a Sunni Muslim family whose eldest son risked his life to smuggle her to safety.
Nadia would be held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten.
Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade.
Six of Nadia\'s brothers were killed, and her mother soon after, their bodies swept into mass graves.
Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused to convert to Islam and women too old to become sex slaves.
On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, this life ended.
Nadia had dreams of becoming a hiStory teacher or opening her own beauty salon.
A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life.
Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story
