The Few

Synopsis

-I am here. Where are you?- These desperate words link the two protagonists of Hakan Gunday's raw and fearless novel The Few. Derda is an eleven-year-old girl pulled out of boarding school by her mother who, without telling her, plans to sell her as a wife to a conservative tribesman. She goes with her new husband to London, where for five years he abuses and all but imprisons her. Even after escaping, Derda soon finds herself preyed upon by Londoners as well as other Turkish immigrants who have formed a criminal underworld.