Offers a powerful insight into the barbarity suffered by the Yazidis, as well as into their mystical culture. This is an important book by a brave woman, a fresh testimony to humanity's potential for horrifying and inexplicable evil. Courageous. Anyone who wants to understand the so-called Islamic State should read it. With a foreword by Amal Clooney, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the first UN Special Envoy for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking, as well as a recipient of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, Nadia Murad is a courageous young woman who has endured unimaginable tragedies (the loss of eighteen family members) and humiliations through sexual slavery at the hands of 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.