For the Love of a Son: One Afghan Woman's Quest for Her Stolen Child

FOR THE LOVE OF A SON
    Jean Sasson
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    Jean
Sasson is the sharp-eyed and compassionate chronicler of women’s
lives in the Muslim world. Author of the worldwide
bestsellers Princess , Daughters of
Arabia , Desert
Royal , Mayada: Daughter of
Iraq , Love in a Torn
Land and Growing up Bin
Laden , she lived in
Saudi Arabia for twelve years, and has travelled throughout the
Middle East for thirty years. She currently makes her home in the
southern United States.
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    “The startling
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    “Anyone with
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    “Must-reading
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    Maryam with her father
and sister Nadia in Kabul Park
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    Map of
Afghanistan by Evan T. White
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has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act
1988 to be identified as the author of this work.
    This book is a
non-fictional account based on the life, experiences and
recollections of the heroine as told to the author. In some limited
cases names of people, places, dates, sequences or details of
events have been changed to protect the privacy of others. The
heroine has stated to the author that, except in such minor
respects not affecting the substantial accuracy of the work, the
contents of this book are true.
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    From our heroine
Maryam Khail
    These memories of
Afghanistan are dedicated to three people
    who loved Afghanistan
with all their hearts:
    To my beloved parents,
and to Farid, my “big brother,”
    I miss you every day of
my life.
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    From author Jean
Sasson
    For every woman in
Afghanistan who silently suffers
    unimaginable abuse at
the hands of the men who
    should love and respect
her.
    I’m sure these women
wonder if anyone in the world cares.
    I care.
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    A Special