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Burned alive : a survivor of an "honor killing" speaks out / Souad, in collaboration with Marie-Therese Cuny.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2005, c2004.Edition: 1st U.S. trade edDescription: 225 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0446694878
  • 9780446694872
Uniform titles:
  • Brûlée vive. English
Subject(s):
Contents:
I was in flames -- Memory -- Hanan? -- Green tomato -- Bride's blood -- Assad -- Secret -- Last meeting -- Fire -- Dying -- Jacqueline -- Souad is going to die -- Switzerland (Souad) -- Marouan -- All that is missing -- Surviving witness -- Jacqueline -- My son -- To build a house -- Afterword.
Summary: When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her West Bank village, as in so many others, sex before marriage is considered a grave dishonor to one's family and is punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of meting out her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the family's clothes, he poured gasoline over her and set her on fire. Miraculously, she survived, rescued by women of her village, who put out the flames and took her to a local hospital. Horribly burned over seventy percent of her body and still denounced by her family, Souad was able to receive the care she needed only after the intervention of a European aid worker. Now in permanent exile from her homeland, she has decided to tell her story and reveal the barbarity of a practice that continues to this day.--From publisher description.
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 362.8292 S719 Available 33111006563403
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A 17-year-old girl from Jordan beats the odds and lives to tell the tale of her family's attempt to kill her after she shames them by becoming pregnant.

Translated by Judith Armbruster.

I was in flames -- Memory -- Hanan? -- Green tomato -- Bride's blood -- Assad -- Secret -- Last meeting -- Fire -- Dying -- Jacqueline -- Souad is going to die -- Switzerland (Souad) -- Marouan -- All that is missing -- Surviving witness -- Jacqueline -- My son -- To build a house -- Afterword.

When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her West Bank village, as in so many others, sex before marriage is considered a grave dishonor to one's family and is punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of meting out her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the family's clothes, he poured gasoline over her and set her on fire. Miraculously, she survived, rescued by women of her village, who put out the flames and took her to a local hospital. Horribly burned over seventy percent of her body and still denounced by her family, Souad was able to receive the care she needed only after the intervention of a European aid worker. Now in permanent exile from her homeland, she has decided to tell her story and reveal the barbarity of a practice that continues to this day.--From publisher description.

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