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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hirsi Ali, Ayaan, 1969- Infidel. New York : Free Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)608420331 |
| Named Person: | Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
| ISBN: | 0743289684 9780743289689 074329503X 9780743295031 |
| OCLC Number: | 72701599 |
| Description: | xii, 353 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | My Childhood. Bloodlines -- Under the Talal tree -- Playing tag in Allah's Palace -- Weeping orphans and widowed wives -- Secret rendezvous, sex, and the scent of Sukumawiki -- Doubt and defiance -- Disillusion and deceit -- Refugees -- Abeh. -- My Freedom. Running away -- A trial by the Elders -- Haweya -- Leiden -- Leaving God -- Threats -- Politics -- The murder of Theo -- The letter of the law. |
| Responsibility: | Ayaan Hirsi Ali. |
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Abstract:
In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of "The Caged Virgin," Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia to her intellectual awakening in the Netherlands to her life under armed guard in the West.
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"A brave and elegant figure...an honest woman...No one who reads her [memoirs] will doubt the self-questioning and the rigorous honesty of her mind. Perhaps, as in Voltaire's short story 'L'IngEnu, ' it is that too much honesty is sometimes unpalatable, even if it is couched in civil terms...She has an open mind that has released itself from the old straitjacketed frame of reference of Right and Left, she is instinctively, deeply antiauthoritarian and she is unlikely to stick to straight ideological lines. She will go on asking difficult questions."-- Isabella Thomas, "The Observer" Read more...
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