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The girl who escaped ISIS, this is my story, Farida Khalaf and Andrea C. Hoffmann ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch

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The girl who escaped ISIS

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Farida Khalaf and Andrea C. Hoffmann ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch

Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction

this is my story

In the early summer of 2014, Farida Khalaf was a typical Yazidi teenager living with her parents and three brothers in her village in the mountains of Northern Iraq. In one horrific day, she lost everything: ISIS invaded her village, destroyed her family, and sold her into sexual slavery. This book is her account of captivity and describes how she defied the odds and escaped a life of torture, in order to share her story with the worldIn August 2014, Farida, like any ordinary teenage girl, was enjoying the summer holidays before her last year at school. But Farida lived in the mountains of northern Iraq--and what happened next was unimaginable. Her village was an ISIS target. ISIS jihadists murdered the men and boys, including her father and brother, before taking Farida and the other women prisoner. This is the story of what happened to Farida after she was captured: the beatings, the rapes, the markets where ISIS sold women like cattle, and Farida's realisation that the more resistant she became, the harder it was for her captors to continue their atrocities against her. So she struggled, she bit, she kicked, she accused her captors of going against their religion, until, one day, the door to her room was left unlocked. She took her chance and, with five younger girls in her charge, fled into the Syrian desert. Farida showed incredible courage in the face of the unthinkable, and now with The Girl Who Beat ISIS she bravely relives her story to bear witness. Searing and immediate, this is the first memoir by a young woman that shows first-hand what life is like for innocents caught up in the maelstrom of day-to-day life with ISIS

Our world as it once was -- One final wonderful summer -- The catastrophe -- The slave market in Raqqa -- In the dark room -- With the "beasts" -- In the military camp -- The road out of hell -- No home, not anywhere -- Epilogue -- A note from Andrea C. Hoffmann

Girl who escaped the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria