A Piece of White Silk
Jacqueline Rose: Honour Killing, 5 November 2009
Murder in the Name of Honour
by Rana Husseini.
Oneworld, 250 pp., £12.99, May 2009,978 1 85168 524 0 Show More
by Rana Husseini.
Oneworld, 250 pp., £12.99, May 2009,
In Honour of Fadime: Murder and Shame
by Unni Wikan, translated by Anna Paterson.
Chicago, 305 pp., £12.50, June 2008,978 0 226 89686 1 Show More
by Unni Wikan, translated by Anna Paterson.
Chicago, 305 pp., £12.50, June 2008,
“... him. In court, Abdullah pleaded guilty and asked for the death sentence, but was given life. Unni Wikan, too, tells this story, in her case-study of Fadime Sahindal, a Swedish-Kurdish woman killed at the age of 25 by her father in 2002. ‘Heshu’s case shows the terrible price the community exacts of a man who feels bound to kill his ... ”
