- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Phoenix; New Ed edition (19 July 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0753822067
- ISBN-13: 978-0753822067
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 492,400 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Compelling reading' (SUNDAY TIMES )
'Selling Olga avoids being sensational or prurient... Waugh argues cogently that victims should receive physical and legal sanctuary.' (Marianne Brace THE INDEPENDENT )
'One of the book's strongest points is that Waugh refuses to take anything at face value... very worthwile' (MORNING STAR ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
'Selling Olga avoids being sensational or prurient... Waugh argues cogently that victims should receive physical and legal sanctuary.' (Marianne Brace THE INDEPENDENT )
'One of the book's strongest points is that Waugh refuses to take anything at face value... very worthwile' (MORNING STAR ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Marianne Brace, THE INDEPENDENT
'Selling Olga avoids being sensational or prurient... Waugh argues cogently that victims should receive physical and legal sanctuary.'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you are interested in Human Trafficking issues, then I recommend this book to read. I am very interested and have read a few books on this subject and have found this one to be one of the best. Easy to read and follow the stories, though I won't say it is a pleasant read. You really find you can imagine meeting the people for yourself.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It concentrates mostly on eastern europe and the UK but also has chapters on asian cases and african cases of trafficking to the UK. This is the first book I've read on trafficking and i found it very interesting and liked the writing style. It's told in first person and follows the author as she discovers about trafficking and interviews numerous people involved including victims and those who are trying to combat it in various ways. The author importantly notes that although its sex trafficking that gets the headlines there are other types of trafficking.
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Interesting, but purely investigative-journalist material
2 May 2012
Format:Hardcover
I checked out Selling Olga because I really enjoyed the author's first book, Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia. Selling Olga was also well-written, but not as good as Hearing Birds Fly. I ended up skimming parts of the book because they seemed repetitive and the prose wasn't quite worth reading for its own sake.
As the other reviewer noted, the book concentrates in large part on the conduct of the governments and organizations ostensibly trying to keep peace and stop trafficking. This was interesting, but the coverage doesn't really venture beyond the journalistic. That is, I was hoping to understand how people could treat each other like commodities. Are being enslaved by your neighbor or you yourself turning into a parasitic bully things just below the surface in all people? But there is never any of this sort of psychological or sociological exploration. That's okay, it just made the book a little less interesting to the general reader, I think. It ended up being a timely and topical expose rather than something more enduring about the human condition.
As for the subject matter, it is distressing to think this is going on. Why isn't there more focus on it in the cable news world? Probably because the narrative here of UN and EU involvement doesn't fit the progressivist narrative.
As the other reviewer noted, the book concentrates in large part on the conduct of the governments and organizations ostensibly trying to keep peace and stop trafficking. This was interesting, but the coverage doesn't really venture beyond the journalistic. That is, I was hoping to understand how people could treat each other like commodities. Are being enslaved by your neighbor or you yourself turning into a parasitic bully things just below the surface in all people? But there is never any of this sort of psychological or sociological exploration. That's okay, it just made the book a little less interesting to the general reader, I think. It ended up being a timely and topical expose rather than something more enduring about the human condition.
As for the subject matter, it is distressing to think this is going on. Why isn't there more focus on it in the cable news world? Probably because the narrative here of UN and EU involvement doesn't fit the progressivist narrative.
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