Not Without My Daughter

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Macmillan, Feb 15, 1991 - Biography & Autobiography - 423 pages

Not Without My Daughter is the true story of a courageous mother and her breathtaking odyssey, now a major motion picture starring Academy Award-winner Sally Field!

In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem faith, in a land where women are near-slaves and Americans are despised. Their only hope for escape lay in a dangerous underground that would not take her child...

Not Without My Daughter is a Literary Guild Alternate Selection.

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About the author (1991)

Betty Mahmoody is an author and public speaker, best known for her book Not Without My Daughter, the basis of the film by the same name. William Hoffer is the co-author of Midnight Express and Saved: The Story of the Andrea Doria. He lives in Virginia.

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