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No lipstick in Lebanon / Paul Timblick with Fasika Sorssa.

Timblick, Paul, (author.). Sorssa, Fasika, (author.).

Summary:

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. Rich in cultural detail and exposing the ongoing, under-reported horrors facing domestic workers in Lebanon today, this is a harrowing 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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  • ISBN: 9781783521081
  • Physical Description: 404 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: London : Unbound, 2015.

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Subject: Ethiopians > Lebanon > Fiction.
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