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If you feel that your life is miserable, try to read this is one. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for women is written very well by the Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. This book captures the world with anger, sadness, clarity, and also an ultimate hope. This book unfolds the stories of extraordinary women in Africa and Asia.

This book spreads a message of the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. You can read the story of Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery, an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth, and other tragic stories of women in oppression. But the main message of this book is not about a hopeless condition of those women. This book tells that little help can transform those women and girls dramatically.

This book tells stories of women’s struggling for their lives and their families’ in a breathtaking bravery. They actually have every reason to give up but they just never do. You will find out how the Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. That Cambodian girl could build a thriving retail business after she escaped from her brothel. This is a really inspiring book to read.