Bøger af Veronika Gasparyan

From the author of the heart-wrenching memoir Mother at Seven, now comes the chilling and unforgettable novel - Forgive Me, Nadia. Based on a true story, this book takes you into the world of secrets and darkness. This thrilling story touches all of your emotions. It has you alongside a young girl in her challenging path filled with love, pain, captivity, betrayal, and the ultimate test of her faith. The beautiful Russian girl Natalia lives with her parents in a small village outside of Moscow. The day before she turns 14, her alcoholic parents sell her for ten bottles of vodka to a sex-trafficking organization. A month after her 17th birthday, Natalia gives birth to a little girl whom she names Nadia, which means "hope." Unfortunately, her happiness ends the very next day when a hired killer and Madam Liz, force the young mother to leave her newborn inside a dumpster in a dark alley. That night destiny shows Natalia there is genuine power in belief. The real challenges are still ahead, and her will to survive is about to be tested at the highest possible level. Can Natalia find the strength? Can she find the way out and escape her captivity?

Mother at Seven is the shocking, inspirational true story of a little girl's tragic childhood, and how she endured and overcame a decade of unspeakable abuse at the hands of her cruel and sadistic family. Set in Sochi, Russia, near the banks of the majestic Black Sea, Mother at Seven tells of those critical moments in a child's life when the only thing standing between the life and death itself was a pure and innocent belief that better days lie ahead. It teaches that by fighting through hardship and pain, miracles can still happen, and that life can still be amazing as long as hope is never lost.