Soraia
| Author: Renaud De Heyn |
Hard cover
Full colour
120 pages
Dimensions: 19.2×27.9×1.5 cm
ISBN: 2203040688
EAN: 9782203040687
Price: € 18.00
Release Date: 09/05/2012
Soraia and Mehdi, brother and sister are from a very poor family living in the Rif region of Morocco. However, the destruction of a “unique local resource” –hashish plantations- forces the family to sell Soraia to the citizens of Tetouan. Becoming one of the countless modern day slaves in the Near and Middle East. She is over-exploited, humiliated, beaten and subject to the lust of her boss.
Mehdi, learning of his sisters fate, sets out to rescue her. There follows a succession of painful trials and fateful encounters, his quest sees him encounter the militant jihad, who are violent, bigoted and who exploit for their benefit the squalor of the slums Morocco…
The art style is not quite something I can get used to but I have only read through this book once. It is graphic and pretty ****** grim. But it tells a story that many of those sold into slavery might well recognise and it is a story that needs telling.
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