Davorka Ćurković Livres

Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, the author's story reveals how a bright little girl transformed from dutiful obedience into an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter. In this timely memoir, she recounts her astonishing journey from a traditional Muslim upbringing in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, now living under armed guard in the West. Her rise to international prominence followed the murder of her colleague, Theo van Gogh, after they collaborated on the film Submission. With a keen eye and often ironic voice, she details her evolving beliefs, unyielding will, and extraordinary resolve to combat injustices committed in the name of religion. Raised in a strict Muslim family, she faced civil war, female mutilation, and brutal beatings, navigating adolescence during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in four unstable countries ruled by despots. In her early twenties, she escaped a forced marriage and sought asylum in the Netherlands, earning a degree in political science and advocating for the rights of Muslim immigrant women. Despite constant threats, being demonized by reactionary Islamists, and disowned by her family, she remains unyielding in her fight for free speech and reform.

Krimi. Camped in her horse-drawn caravan at Buckshaw, a young Gypsy woman is charged with the abduction -and then the murder - of a local child, and Flavia must draw upon her encyclopaedic knowledge of poisons - and Gypsy lore - to prevent a grave miscarriage of justice.

Flavia de Luce thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey are over-until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity.

Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is propelled into a mystery when a man is found murdered on the grounds of her family's decaying English mansion and Flavia's father becomes the main suspect.

Ja sam Ayaan, kći Hirsija, Maganovog sina. U prvom dijelu “Nevjernice” Ayaan Hirsi Ali kao petogodišnjakinja sjedi na travi dok je baka poučava imenima predaka, upozoravajući je da ih mora poštovati. Priča počinje u nomadskoj obitelji, gdje je Ayaan obrezana u djetinjstvu i podučavana od radikalnih učitelja u Keniji i Saudijskoj Arabiji. Uči da će, ako otkrije kosu, doživjeti strašne tragedije. Iako su je upozorili da će imati nesretan život i umrijeti sama, ona uspijeva pobjeći i postati međunarodno priznata glasnogovornica za prava muslimanskih žena. Njezin bijeg od obitelji, koja je prisilno vodila k dogovorenom mužu u Kanadu, dovodi je do političkog azila u Nizozemskoj, gdje priznaje da je izmislila svoju priču. U novoj zemlji, Ayaan skida veo i prkosi tradiciji, oblačeći traperice, vozeći bicikl i upisujući se na sveučilište. Postaje aktivna u javnom govoru o tretmanu muslimanskih žena i ulazi u nizozemski parlament. Međutim, tragedija je uslijedila kada je surađivala s redateljem Theom van Goghom na kontroverznom filmu o patnji muslimanskih žena. Nakon što je Van Gogha ubio radikal, Ayaan se počinje skrivati zbog prijetnji smrću, a mediji istražuju njenu prošlost i otkrivaju nedosljednosti u njenoj priči o azilu.