When she was a little girl, Jasvinder Sanghera's father told her about the village he came from, Kang Sabhu in rural Punjab. One day, he promised to take her there so she could meet her half-sister, Bachanu, who had stayed behind. But at the age of sixteen - as she so vividly related in her bestseller Shame - Jasvinder ran away from home to escape a forced marriage. Her parents disowned her. 'Shame travels...' her father told her. Although her mother took all her other daughters to meet the extended family in the Punjab, Jasvinder was never allowed to go. With her own daughter about to marry, Jasvinder decides to challenge thirty years of rejection by going to India herself. She wants to explore her roots and to see for herself the place her parents called home until the day they died. What Jasvinder finds in India and what she learns changes the way she sees the world, and has important lessons for all of us. SHAME TRAVELS is not only a gripping and revealing quest, but also an inspirational journey of the heart.
Jasvinder Sanghera Boeken
Jasvinder Sanghera is een activist en voorvechter van vrouwenrechten, met een focus op het probleem van gedwongen huwelijken. Via haar organisatie en persoonlijke ervaring onthult ze het diepe trauma en de maatschappelijke impact van deze praktijken. Haar werk kenmerkt zich door rauwe eerlijkheid en een krachtige boodschap van moed en het streven naar vrijheid. Sanghera's schrijven geeft een stem aan degenen die tot zwijgen zijn gebracht, en bevordert zo een bredere maatschappelijke dialoog over mensenrechten.
Daughters of Shame
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In her new top ten bestseller Jasvinder Sanghera tells the harrowing and moving stories of women trapped in forced marriages.
Shame
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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.