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Title: |
Town of Love |
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| By (author): |
Anne Ostby |
| ISBN10-13: |
1742198473 : 9781742198477 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
210x140mm |
| Pages: |
278 |
| Weight: |
.290 Kg. |
| Published: |
Spinifex Press - March 2013 |
| List Price: |
19.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Subjects: |
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| They call them â women of love,â but the lyrical beauty of the term has a hidden dark side: a workforce of very young girls tasked with feeding their families by offering up their bodies for sale. The girls belong to the Nat which includes some of Indiaâ s very poorest. For centuries, the Nat men have sent their daughters, sisters, and wives into sex trafficking. Baby girls are welcome arrivals in these towns of loveâ everyone knows that one day, they will be the breadwinners. As a Nat, you are untouchable, despised by Indian society. How would anyone dare break free of this legacy of prostitution, when it also would mean being shunned by your entire family? |
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"Having personally met the survivors of trafficking about whom this is written, I know that Anne Ostby’s novel deserves world attention. It is the essence of a terrible truth that must be exposed." -- Gloria Steinem
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This tale is raw but honest, it's current and, in the words of writer and feminist activist Gloria Steinem, "a terrible truth that must be exposed". —Katrina Kincaide-Sharkey, North and West Melbourne News
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