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When she was fourteen, Jasvinder Sanghera was shown a photo of the man chosen to be her husband. She was terrified. She'd witnessed the torment her sisters endured in their arranged marriages, so she ran away from home, grief-stricken when her parents disowned her. Shame is the heart-rending true story of a young girl's attempt to escape from a cruel, claustrophobic world where family honour mattered more than anything - sometimes more than life itself. Jasvinder's story is one of terrible oppression, a harrowing struggle against a punitive code of honour - and, finally, triumph over adversity.
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- Title
- Shame
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jasvinder Sanghera
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton Limited
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 289
- ISBN10
- 0340924624
- ISBN13
- 9780340924624
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Family, True Crime, Women's Biographies
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
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- When she was fourteen, Jasvinder Sanghera was shown a photo of the man chosen to be her husband. She was terrified. She'd witnessed the torment her sisters endured in their arranged marriages, so she ran away from home, grief-stricken when her parents disowned her. Shame is the heart-rending true story of a young girl's attempt to escape from a cruel, claustrophobic world where family honour mattered more than anything - sometimes more than life itself. Jasvinder's story is one of terrible oppression, a harrowing struggle against a punitive code of honour - and, finally, triumph over adversity.