Betty Mahmoody
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1987 Betty Mahmoody captured the world's attention and admiration with the compelling and heartrending story of her virtual imprisonment in Iran and subsequent daring escape with her daughter Mahtob. With over fifteen million copies sold worldwide, Not Without My Daughter topped international bestseller lists and alerted the world to the implications of inter cultural relationships and the issue of international parental child abduction. Five years...
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 1 hr., 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
American Betty Mahmoody goes with her daughter and her Iranian-born husband to his native Iran for a vacation. Soon Betty discovers her husband doesn't intend to ever return to America. He will let her go, but her daughter must stay. As a stranger in a foreign police state, Betty has no money, no friends, no rights, and makes a desperate, heroic bid to escape with her child.