by Betty Mahmoody, William Hoffer · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408202387
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This is a true story. Betty Mahmoody, an American housewife, and her husband, an Iranian doctor based in the United States, go on vacation to Tehran with their four-year-old daughter Mahtob. After two weeks, the husband decides to settle there and, protected by Iranian law, forces his wife to stay in the country, unless she agrees to separate from her daughter. Betty, trapped in a culture that is foreign to her, plans to flee with her little girl through the mountains of Iran and Turkey. Not Without My Daughter tells in a moving, exciting and terrifying way the endless and arduous ordeal of a woman in her struggle to preserve one of the fundamental rights of the human being: freedom.
Betty Mahmoody is an American author and public speaker. In 1984, during a visit to Iran with her husband and daughter, he refused to let them return to the United States, holding them captive in Iran and subjecting them to constant abuse until she escaped with her daughter to Turkey in 1986. After she and her daughter returned to the US and after her divorce to Moody, she garnered media attention in 1987 when she published Not Without My Daughter, a memoir recounting her captivity in Iran. MGM-Pathé Communications adapted her memoir into a film in 1991.
