I have wanted to read this book for along time. Even signed on a bookray, but it looks the bookray is stalled permanently. So, I bought the book and will read it in my leisure time. I might keep this book for a little longer.

From inside of the book...........

The first true account ever published by a victim of an "honor crime," Souad's testimony is a shocking, moving, and harrowing story of cruelty.... and incomparable courage.

When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her west Bank Village, as in so many other villageds, sex before marriage is considered a grave dishonor to one's family and is punishable by death. this was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of meting out her punishment. One morning while Souad waas washing the family's clothes, he poured gasoline over her and set her on fire.

In the eyes of their community he was a hero. An execution for a "crime of honor" is duty, and Souad's brother-in-law had the full support of her parents.

Miraculously, she survived, rescued by women of her village, who put our the flames and took her to a local hospital. Horribly burned over ninety percent of her body and still denounced by her family who strived to "finsih the job" even she lay suffering in the clinic. Souad was able to receive the care she needed only after the interventionn of a European aid worker. Now in permanet exile from her homeland, she has decided to tell her story and reveal the barbarity of a practice that continues to this day.

Hardcover 225 pages

A sad story of a woman in a place where virginity is an honor. This is the story of the author experience with so called "honor crime" Well written throughout.