Relentless, An Immigrant Story : One Woman's Decade-Long Fight To Heal A Family Torn Apart By War, Lies, And Tyranny

Wudasie Nayzgi

ISBN 10: 1734309601 / ISBN 13: 9781734309607

Edité par Brinestone Press Sep 2018, 2018

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Neuware - The war tore thousands of families apart. These are the years-long battles I fought to bring the shattered pieces of mine back together again.It is hard enough to have a decent life when your country slips so easily into war, harder still when your husband is snatched off the street to fight in it. But the worst day of my life, the day my world fell utterly to pieces, was the day I received the heartbreaking news that my eldest daughter suffered from a terrifying medical condition. I soon learned that lifesaving treatment was available only outside the country, but I was blocked from seeking it by a heartless bureaucracy and an increasingly oppressive regime. I was left with an agonizing decision:Do I stay and jeopardize the life of one child, or save her by fleeing my beloved homeland, leaving my husband and second child behind. . . possibly forever Relentless is the powerful and inspiring memoir of an Eritrean woman who defied Africa's most corrupt and murderous regime, and became an American immigrant success story.There is a proverb in my native Tigrinya language, both warning and admonishment. It goes like this:'Haki tseraba mot keraba.'It means, if you speak the truth, you will gather many enemies.The Dreams of Freedom stories:The year is 1991, and a bloody thirty-year war with Ethiopia has just ended, earning Eritrea its first taste of freedom in over a century. But peace is a delicate flower easily trampled. Soon, the small Horn-of-Africa nation finds itself in the grip of a despotic madman. In the midst of exploding violence, a family torn apart by circumstance will risk everything to save themselves and their children from a life of oppression, all on the slim promise of a future as bright as the one they had imagined for themselves.One shattered family, two powerful accounts of love, heartbreak, and determination deep inside one of the world's most isolated and ruthless regimes.~ Relentless - An Immigrant Storyby Wudasi Nayzgi and Kenneth James Howe~ I Will Not Grow Downward - Memoir Of An Eritrean Refugeeby Yikealo Neab and Kenneth James HoweI WILL NOT GROW DOWNWARD - MEMOIR OF AN ERITREAN REFUGEEONE MAN'S LONG AND PERILOUS FLIGHT FROM AFRICA'S HERMIT KINGDOMA century of bloody oppression never broke the spirit of the Eritrean people. After winning their freedom, a young man returns to Asmara to begin a new life, but his dreams of a home filled with happy children are quickly shattered when fighting resumes. Brutally rounded up for conscription into the army, subjected to inhumane conditions, forced to serve a despotic leader waging a war nobody wants, he will have to sacrifice everything just for a chance to get back what he has lost - his family, his freedom, and his birthright.I Will Not Grow Downward offers an exceedingly rare glimpse inside the highly secretive and brutally repressive regime known as Africa's North Korea.

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• Titre: Relentless, An Immigrant Story : One Woman's Decade-Long Fight To Heal A Family Torn Apart By War, Lies, And Tyranny
• Éditeur: Brinestone Press Sep 2018
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1734309601
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781734309607
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 235 L x 157 H x 21 P (en millimètres) 235 millimètres de largeur par 157 millimètres de hauteur par 21 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 611 grammes

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Synopsis

If you had to choose, would you be able to?

As war rages in her beloved homeland and her husband is forcibly conscripted to fight in it, a young mother faces the most terrifying decision of her life -- which of her two precious daughters to save... and which she must abandon.

This is the story of one mother’s heroic struggle to rescue her family from the clutches of uncertainty and oppression.

There is a proverb in my native Tigrinya language, both warning and admonishment. It goes like this:
Haki tseraba mot keraba.
It means: If you speak the truth, you will gather many enemies. Well, I say let them come. Let them see how the pain they have inflicted has made me who I am:
Relentless.

Eritrean by blood, Wudasie Nayzgi was raised deep in the heart of neighboring Ethiopia, a nation that for generations after the Second World War refused her people their independence. After a bloody 30-year war ends the violent reign of brutal Ethiopian dictator Emperor Haile Selassie, Wudasie returns to her ancestral homeland, a stranger in search of her roots and a chance to raise a family. For a while, it seems her dreams are within reach.

But soon, new threats arise, coming from old enemies and new. Her husband is kidnapped off of the street and subjected to brutal training to fight in a war nobody wants, while her oldest daughter is diagnosed with a life-threatening heart defect. With the borders sealed shut, an increasingly paranoid government resorting ever more to violence and suppression, and medical treatment unavailable in-country, her only remaining option to save her daughter’s life might not be so viable after all: petition for mercy. But even if the government allows her to leave - a remote possibility at best - doing so could end up shattering more lives than it saves.

Relentless is the powerful memoir of a wife and mother who refused to compromise, and instead defied one of the world’s most corrupt and murderous regimes, and after decades of personal struggle and sacrifice finally found peace and redemption in a new home: America. A heartbreaking story for the ages with an inspiring outcome that celebrates the strength, determination, and heroism of women everywhere.

Relentless is part of the Dreams of Freedom collection, stories of resilience from Eritrea, the small war-torn nation known as the North Korea of Africa.

À propos des auteurs

Wudasie Nayzgi is an Ethiopia-born Eritrean who returned to her homeland after it won its independence in a brutal 30-year war. She is the mother of two daughters.

Ken is a former US Army combat medic and retired PhD scientist and biotech entrepreneur. Founder of the boutique publishing company, Brinestone Press, he writes and publishes in a variety of fiction and nonfiction genres under this name and as Saul Tanpepper (speculative fiction, scifi, horror) and Addison Plath (women's lit). He is a frequent world traveler, a devoted father, and occasional chinchilla-wrangler. Originally from Upstate New York, he currently calls Central California home.