The Last Girl - About the book
Finished reading : 3rd May'19
I came across the stirring story of Nadia Murad Taha while i was researching about young UN activists. As soon as i came across the fact that the story of Nadia is complied in a book written by herself, I desperately wanted to read it. Even though i had a good long series of books lined up to read i felt like reading it before any other book. I chose to e-read the book. It took me quite a long time e-reading the book since i am not a potent e-reader.
What you should know - The exemplary document of the story of emotional strength, courage and patience of Nadia Murad had been a very emotional read with the blend of tears, dread, chills and rage. Tears for the love of family and the loss of family members, dread for how heinous a human being can be towards another, chills for what the human beings have go through when they become the victims of monsters' rancore and rage for how many people still ignore the injustice and atrocities towards the weak and the poor while they stand there with there eyes wide open.
The book shares the mixed feelings of a girl who lost her loved family members at the hands of ISIS, was stranded from her family, her home and her village by ISIS and was captured as a sex slave along with other young girls of her family by Islamic States
Plot - The paperback talks about the life of Nadia, a 21 year old girl who had beautiful dreams of an average Yazidi girl in Iraq, getting education, having her own salon and growing up and getting married to a suitable guy. Nadia Murad exquisitely describes her life as the daughter of a hardworking nomadic farmer and a strong mother, who lived in a small village in Northern Iraq called Kocho. Part I of the book describes her happy life in the village with her mother, siblings and their children. Further in the book Nadia describes how the life of the villagers changed soon after their village was taken over by the 'Daesh' or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, how her heart sank when she saw the massacre of all the Yazidi men of Kocho and how deeply her heart was wounded every time she thought of her family and their whereabouts. Nadia talks about her life as a sex slave under ISIS, how viciously she was treated, how she was made to convert and how she was regarded not as a human being but as a thing to be bought and sold.
Nadia's ordeal under the ISIS, away from her home and family and her perpetual desire to go back to her home and see her family intensified her will to free herself from captivity and serve the other Yazidi men and women suffering from the atrocities of ISIS. Nadia explains the fear and the risk that accompanied her from her captors house till she reached the refugee camp free from the influence of ISIS. As she mentioned in her book - the story of Nadia is not only her story, it is the story of every Yazidi who was held captive by ISIS.
Conclusion - It is a rousing story and also an inspiring one. All in all THE LAST GIRL is a great book to read for those who wish to know about the heartbreaking story of the victims of ISIS genocide and their families and the lives of the survivors of Islamic State's captivity.
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