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,
“... can also rub off on her killer when she dies. In Honour Killing: Stories of Men Who Killed, Ayse Onal interviews Nevzat, a man in prison in Turkey for killing his wife and daughter when the wife told him the daughter was pregnant. ‘It was obvious to Nevzat,’ Onal says, ‘that nothing, not even the sacrifice ... ”
