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A searing portrait of forced girlhood and generational grief, Given Away reveals the quiet strength of a woman surviving child marriage and motherhood in 1930s Iran. In 1930s Iran, ten-year-old Mehri is given away in marriage, the first step in a life shaped by forced motherhood, loss, and sacrifice. Alone and afraid, she navigates married life far from the support of her mother and sisters. Pregnant by thirteen, Mehri bears child after child, losing many along the way, and struggles to mother her five surviving children through a haze of grief. In Given Away, Nahid Rachlin traces the hidden scars of her family’s history, carved by a system that grants men complete control and strips women of their voices. Yet within that silence, Rachlin reveals a quiet resistance rooted in sisterhood, love, and endurance.

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Book category Books in German Belletristik Erzählende Literatur Hauptwerk vor 1945

• Full title: Given Away
• Author: Nahid Rachlin
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9781636284811
• ISBN: 1636284817
• ID: 49131280
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Weight: 411 g
• Date of publishing: 16. June 2026

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