No lipstick in Lebanon
Desperate to create her own destiny, and drawn by the irresistible possibility of earning real dollars as a maid in Beirut, Meron Lemma leaves her devout mother and family behind to join the many other Habesha migrants searching for a better life in the Middle East. Only once there does she realise the ugly truth: instead of opportunity, she has found captivity. This is an account of the unremitting hell of modern slavery. Told through the escalating plight of our heroine, this is not just a fictionalized report of one maid's ordeal, but rather the uncovering of a larger issue plaguing a generation of women.
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Household employees > Fiction. Young women > Fiction. Exploitation > Fiction. Slavery > Fiction. Beirut (Lebanon) > Fiction. |
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Political fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 1783521082
- ISBN: 9781783521081
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Physical Description
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404 pages ; 23 cm - Publisher London : Unbound, 2015.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 31.99 |