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Tears of the Desert: One Woman's True Story of Surviving the Horrors of Darfur (Hardcover)

by Halima Bashir (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (10 Jul 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340963565
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340963562
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.4 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 62,768 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'This is a brave book. And a valuable one. Halima's story of the atrocities and immeasurable losses she has endured must be told. [She] leaves us with hope and awe in the face of her courage' (Mia Farrow )

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Halima Bashir was born into the remote western deserts of Sudan. She grew up in a wonderfully rich environment and later went on to study medicine. At the age of twenty-four she returned to her tribe and began practising as their first ever qualified doctor. But then a dark cloud descended upon her people...

Janjaweed Arab militias began savagely assaulting her people. At first, Halima tried not to get involved. But in January 2004 they attacked people in her village. Halima treated the traumatised victims and was sickened by what she saw. She decided to speak out in a Sudanese newspaper and to the UN charities. Then the secret police came for her. For days Halima was interrogated and subjected to unspeakable torture. She finally escaped but the nightmare just seemed to follow her... This inspiring story tells of one woman's determination to survive and her passion to defend her people. For the first time, we can truly understand the personal horrors of Darfur from someone who lived through it.



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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The most moving book I have ever read..., 8 Aug 2008
By Benoy N. Shah "benoyshah" (London) - See all my reviews
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I am absolutely astonished by the two reviews so far. Let me give an alternative take on this book.

To say that Bashir has been through a lot would be the biggest understatement of the century. It is a tragedy of epic proportions that a human being can go through what she has in the 21st century.

The book starts off describing her life in Darfur when it was just another part of Sudan. Peaceful. She details the customs of her people - the Zaghawa - and village life. She reveals her hopes for the future, and the village/cultural mentality that constantly puts hurdles in front of her.

She then goes on to describe how things slowly begin to change in her homeland and, before she can understand why, she is suddenly a target in her own country. What she reveals can only be described as genocide...the systematic attempts to abolish black Africans in Sudan by the Arabs. What she sees...and then experiences...is horrific. There are barely words to desribe what she endured, and must still be haunted by.

When she finally makes it to England, she simply passes comment about things which she sees and disagrees with or doesn't understand, because they are so different from her traditions back home. She notices that people in London seem in a rush and rarely offer a smile to strangers, unlike in her village. She doesn't understand when she sees two young people making out in public. And she has litle sympathy for a middle aged woman who has become an alocholic after her husband left her because she was fell pregnant after sleeping wih her son's best friend...20 years younger than her! These are not the words of a bitter or ungrateful person. And it doesn't mean she has no gratitude towards this country. She states how friendly and respectful our police officers are, compared to the police in Sudan.

I have often wondered what someone who had lost everything would think of the western world if they saw how many of us lived, and what our daily dilemmas are compared to theirs. How insignificant it must seem to worry about what to waer on Friday night out or what to have for dinner the next day, when you have seen your people annihilated and family murdered. Bashir openly talks about the fears of going to sleep wondering if they will be attacked overnight...murdered overnight...raped overnight...it takes reading a book like this to emphasise just how incredibly lucky we are in this country.

This is a very, very brave book narrating a modern day tragedy. As I said earlier, it beggars belief that this is actually a real story rather than the sick gruesome novel. You must read this book to understand just how much Sudan has been destroyed, and to begin to understand just how much pain and suffering has been inflicted upon millions of people.
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3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Author spoiled an otherwise good book with the last few chapters, 2 Aug 2008
By Mrs. D. S. Taylor (UK) - See all my reviews
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There are a handful of shocking and horrific occurrences described in this book that stayed with me a long time after I finished reading. I had huge sympathy for the author and shared her anger at how her country was left to ruin and innocent civilians abandoned to their fate. However, towards the end of the book my sympathy waned as the author slates Britain, its government, organisations and even its individual citizens. Several times Bashir describes the behaviour and attitudes of individual Britons and various organisations as "inconceivable in her culture". I couldn't help but feel a stab of resentment at these comments and I detected ungratefulness in the tone of Bashir. In British culture, it is "inconceivable" that the government of a country could do the things the Sudanese government did to its innocent civilians. I was disappointed that Bashir failed to note this and wasn't a little more humble. However, if you can ignore the authors misplaced hostility, then the story might be worth a look.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Tears of the desert, 9 Oct 2008
By Catherine (Scotland) - See all my reviews
An excellent, insightful book, into another society and the modern day events that are unfolding without many of us being aware - more people should read this......
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5.0 out of 5 stars You must read this gripping real life story
I haven't read a book as quickly as I read this one - I was gripped reading about Halima Bashir's life, the culture in Sudan and the events that happened to her. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Bite the hand that feeds...
I thought that this woman would have been grateful to the country that eventually took her in when her own country signally failed to protect her. Read more
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