After eight years of misery and humiliation Zana succeeded in escaping, but her sister is still there, and it seems likely that she will now never leave the country where she has spent more than half her life. They had to adapt to a completely alien way of life, with no running water, dung-plastered walls, frequent beatings, and the ordeal of childbirth on bare floors with only old women in attendance. Zana Muhsen and her sister left Birmingham to visit relatives in North Yemen, but they discovered that their father had sold them into marriage and they. Ages 15 and 13 respectively, Zana and her sister discovered that they had been literally sold into marriage, and that on their arrival they were virtually prisoners. Ten years ago, Zana Muhsen escaped from her life of slavery in the Yemen into which her father had sold her as a child bride, leaving behind her baby son. When her father told her she was to spend a holiday with relatives in North Yemen, she jumped at the chance. 4,710 Ratings Zana Muhsen, born and bred in Birmingham, is of Yemeni origin.Buy Vendidas (Divulgacion Testimonio) by Zana Muhsen, Andrew Crofts (ISBN: ) from Amazon’s Book Store. Read full overviewĪ newly updated edition of a young girls' account of her terrifying experiences with being sold by her father as a modern day sex slave in Yemen Zana Muhsen, born and bred in Birmingham, is of Yemeni origin. Zana Muhsen (born in Birmingham, England) is a British author known for her book Sold: Story of Modern-day Slavery and its follow-up A Promise to Nadia.

When her father told her she was to spend. A newly updated edition of a young girls' account of her terrifying experiences with being sold by her father as a modern day sex slave in Yemen Zana Muhsen, born and bred in Birmingham, is of Yemeni origin.

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