Top

The Last Girl

On sale

9th November 2017

Price: £19.99

Select a format

Selected: Audiobook Downloadable / ISBN-13: 9781405540049

Disclosure: If you buy products using the retailer buttons above, we may earn a commission from the retailers you visit.

`Telling my story of first, surviving genocide and then, as a captive of ISIS is not easy, but people must know.’ The remarkable and courageous story of Nadia Murad, a twenty-three-year-old Yazidi woman who is working with Amal Clooney to challenge the world to fight ISIS on behalf on her people.

With a foreword by Amal Clooney

A Nobel Peace Prize nominee and the first Goodwill Ambassador the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking of the United Nations and winner of the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize, Nadia Murad is a courageous young woman who has endured unimaginable tragedy (losing eighteen members of her family) and degradation through sexual enslavement to ISIS. But she has fought back.

This inspiring memoir takes us from her peaceful childhood in a remote village in Iraq through loss and brutality to safety in Germany. Courage and testimony can change the world: this is one of those books.

Reviews

Sunday Business Post
Nadia Murad has put a human face on one of the world's most complicated and intractable conflicts
New Yorker
This devastating memoir unflinchingly recounts her experiences and questions the complicity of witnesses who acquiesced in the suffering of others
Ian Birrell, The Times
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
The Economist
Courageous . . . Anyone who wants to understand the so called Islamic State (is) should read [The Last Girl]