The Last Girl

My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic State

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The Last Girl

By: Nadia Murad, Jenna Krajeski, Amal Clooney - introduction

Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin

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`Telling my story of first, surviving genocide and then, as a captive of ISIS is not easy, but people must know.' The remarkable and courageous story of Nadia Murad, a twenty-three-year-old Yazidi woman who is working with Amal Clooney to challenge the world to fight ISIS on behalf on her people.

With a foreword by Amal Clooney

A Nobel Peace Prize nominee and the first Goodwill Ambassador the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking of the United Nations and winner of the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize, Nadia Murad is a courageous young woman who has endured unimaginable tragedy (losing eighteen members of her family) and degradation through sexual enslavement to ISIS. But she has fought back.

This inspiring memoir takes us from her peaceful childhood in a remote village in Iraq through loss and brutality to safety in Germany. Courage and testimony can change the world: this is one of those books.

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Critic reviews

The Last Girl offers powerful insight into the barbarity the Yazidi suffered alongside glimpses into their mystical culture . . . this is an important book by a brave woman, fresh testament to humankind's potential for chilling and inexplicable evil

Courageous . . . Anyone who wants to understand the so called Islamic State should read The Last Girl

This devastating memoir unflinchingly recounts her experiences and questions the complicity of witnesses who acquiesced in the suffering of others

Nadia Murad has put a human face on one of the world's most complicated and intractable conflicts

Her book is sobering - and an inspiration

A harrowing memoir... Intricate in historical context... The Last Girl leaves readers with urgent, incendiary questions

Murad gives us a window on the atrocities that destroyed her family and nearly wiped out her vulnerable community. This is a courageous memoir that serves as an important step toward holding to account those who committed horrific crimes

This is likely the most inspiring feminist memoir out this year

A devastating yet ultimately inspiring memoir that doubles as an urgent call to action

Brilliant and intense... a clear-eyed account of ISIS's cruelty

Powerful... A heartbreaking elegy to a lost community

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Let me preface this by saying that this isn't an easy book to read. Nobody wants to read about a girl seeing her mother and brothers being beheaded. Nobody wants to know about what it's like to be forced to pray and put make up on in preparation for your own rape. Nobody wants to hear about this, which is why everybody should.

Because Nadia's story isn't fiction. Nadia is a real person who suffered the worst autrocities one human being is capable of afflicting to another, yet she is not a victim. She is a fighter, a survivor, an activist, a strong woman who did not allow herself to become a victim. Even in the darkest of times, she calwed her way out of captivity, only to rebuild herslef from the ashes.

This is a story you should know, because if Nadya went through all she went through, if Nadia's people are suffering this genocide on daily basis, the very least we could do is take the time to read their stories.

And also because this is our duty as humans. To know and to be aware of what is happening to others. It's easy to turn our heads the other way because we don't want to acknowledge the gruesome reality that is some people's lives. We commemorate the abolition of slavery, we promise ourselves to never forget what happened to millions of people in the concentration camps, yet we allow the mass enslavement and genocide of Yazidi people. This is happening today. We need to know. We need to be aware. We need to fight this evil.

Finally, this book is worth a read because it is a triumphant story. It will make you realise that if Nadia can go through what she went through, and come out the other end stronger, more empowered and resiliant then we could too. This story also offers an insight look into the rich, colourful and tight-knigt Yazidi culture, which I for one, was not aware of.

So if you're looking for a new read, something that for better or for worse will change you forver, then pick up Nadia's book. You owe it to yourself, you owe it to Nadia, you owe it to humanity.