Girl, Taken: A True Story of Abduction, Captivity, and Survival

Description

Imagine walking home alone one evening. Suddenly, you are assaulted, drugged and kidnapped. Strange men drive you through the night and keep you prisoner. You don’t know who they are. You don’t know what they want. They speak a language you don’t even understand.

This happened to me.

Just three weeks after my 21st birthday, on the evening of October 4th, 1994, I was abducted from the streets of my hometown in southern Russia while on my way home. They drugged me and drove to another country, where they held me captive in a tiny room at first, and then under a house in a pit.

Through horrifying months of captivity, witnessing atrocities, surviving bombings, and sexual violence, I fought desperately to stay alive, stay sane, and not to lose the one thing that kept me going: my hope.

I wrote a book about my experiences: Girl, Taken—A True Story of Abduction, Captivity and Survival . . .

Girl, Taken is Gold Literary Award Winner in the Memoir category at 2019 Global Ebook Awards.