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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State. Nadia Murad. 4.47. 25,307 ratings2,792 reviews. 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.
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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State is an autobiographical book by Nadia Murad in which she describes how she was captured and enslaved by the Islamic State during the Second Iraqi Civil War.
- Jenna Krajeski, Nadia Murad
- 2017
Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade. Nadia would be held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten. 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 ...
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- Nadia Murad
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The Last Girl offers powerful insight into the barbarity the Yazidi suffered alongside glimpses into their mystical culture . . . this is an important book by a brave woman, fresh testament to humankind's potential for chilling and inexplicable evil -- Ian Birrell ― The Times Courageous . . .
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- Nadia Murad, Jenna Krajeski
In THE LAST GIRL, I wanted to highlight some of the extraordinary ways in which Yazidis escape slavery. Even though by now there are so many people—from the families of the victims, to Kurdish regional government officials, to paid taxi drivers or ISIS informants — each rescue is different, and feels chaotic when it is being organized.
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE • In this “courageous” (The Washington Post) memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq.
- Nadia Murad
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE • In this “courageous” (The Washington Post) memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia...
