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Lädt ... Leila's secret (2015)von Kooshyar Karimi
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I found this to be a very moving story but I did have reservations.Whilst horrified by the Taliban's treatment of women in Iran , I found story of Leila's seduction a little far fetched. I could understand why she acted like a 12 year old because of her secluded existence but even so could not believe that she would succumb to having sex with a stranger so easily. Likewise the story of the doctor Karimi. I do not believe that he would have been able to perform illegal operations for so long without the authorities finding out and then when he was arrested he seemed to get off so lightly. Surely he would have been executed for his crimes. Nevertheless it is a story written in the first person by the doctor who now lives in Australia. and well worth reading. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
A kind of People Smuggler of the medical profession, Kooshyar Karimi's memoir tells the true story of a young Iranian woman for whom pregnancy means certain death. In working to save Leila, and countless like her, Doctor Karimi risks the lives of himself and his family.Leila is 22 years old and lives in a small town in Iran with her parents, elder sister and three cruel brothers. It is the strictest of families and Iran in the mid-1990s, as now, is under sharia law. Leila, intelligent and passionate, yearns to go to university but her family will not allow it. This doesn't stop her reading, and her trips to the library are among the few outings she's allowed. She and her sister have also taken to visiting the local orphanage, an outlet for their natural affection and generosity that can find no expression in such a rigid life. As Leila returns home one day, she comes upon the handsome owner of a clothes store, and her fate is sealed.Leila's Secret is told in two voices, Leila's and Kooshyar Karimi's. Born in a slum to a Muslim father and a Jewish mother, Kooshyar is married with one daughter. He has a successful medical practice and a kind heart, often treating his poorest patients for free. He is also of a mindset far too liberal for his own good; he cannot abide the treatment of women in sharia society and so he illegally performs terminations and hymen repairs for the raped and the unmarried, who otherwise face death either by stoning or their own hand. Kooshyar's own death, should he be discovered, will be by hanging.Kooshyar intertwines Leila's story with his own because, as he says, 'I can no longer think of her life and my life as separate. I too was an unwanted child.' Even though her pregnancy was dangerously far advanced when she came to him, he managed to save her, learning her story as he did, but a year later he was arrested and tortured, spared execution only by being forced to become a spy for the regime. He eventually escaped and was given refuge in Australia. These two extraordinary stories are compelling, haunting, heartbreaking, and for all the tragedy of their substance, also paradoxically, beautifully uplifting. Kooshyar Karimi writes with the depth of his immense compassion, and the reader finishes his book the larger for having read it.'Leila's Secret brims with compassion and yearning and eloquently shares the story of a regime suffocating its people and losing all that was great about it. To read this book is to see inside a culture and understand the desperation of its people.' The Hoopla Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)305.420955Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Women Role in society, status History, geographic treatment, biographyBewertungDurchschnitt:
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