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Souad is the pen name attributed to the author of the best-selling book Burned Alive: a Victim of the Law of Men, ostensibly a first-person account of an attempted honor killing. "Souad" is described as a Palestinian woman now living in Europe who survived an attempted murder by her brother-in-law, who doused her with gasoline and set her on fire, at the urging of her family. The book was written as a result of repressed memory therapy.

According to the book, she forgot about the incident for two decades until it was recovered through repressed memory therapy. Thérèse Taylor, an Australian historian, has pointed out numerous medical, historical and cultural inconsistencies in the book that put its authenticity in d...more

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Average rating: 3.84 · 2,630 ratings · 316 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors

	Burned Alive 3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 2,631 ratings — published 2003 — 30 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	brulée vive 3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Something in me is broken but people don't realize it because I always smile to hide it.”
― Souad, Burned Alive

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“Sometimes laying in my bed, I would think that I should have died because I deserved to.”
― Souad, Burned Alive

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“But for a mother who was submissive to the degree my mother was, it was ok to kill girls. For a father like mine,it was normal to chop off hi daughters hair with sheep shears, and to beat her with a belt or a cane or tie her up in the stable all night with the cows.”
― Souad, Burned Alive

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