The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

Author: Nadia Murad, with foreword by Amal Clooney

In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story.
 
On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was twenty-one years old, 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. Six of Nadia’s brothers were killed, and her mother soon after, their bodies swept into mass graves. 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 smuggle her to safety.

Product Details:

·       Paperback; 320 pages

·       Publisher: Crown

·       Published: October 16, 2018

·       ISBN - 13: 9781524760441

·       Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.2 x 1.7 cm (8 x 5.2 x 0.68 inches)