A DISOBEDIENT GIRL sold to Croatia!

We are incredibly happy to share the news, that A DISOBEDIENT GIRL by Sara Al Husaini has been sold to Naklada Ljevak in Croatia! This marks the first foreign sale for Al Husaini. The deal was closed by Satu Sallantaus at Ahlbäck Agency in collaboration with our wonderful co-agent Antonija Radic at Corto Literary.

Based on the author’s own experiences, A Disobedient Girl takes a very close and visceral look at the normalized misogyny and oppression of women in conservative Islamic tradition and deals with themes such as liberty, womanhood, and self-determination. It also highlights how such traumas can be inherited through the generations and how these grievances can only be transcended with dialogue and the will to change.

Originally published June 2023, A Disobedient Girl was one of the most successful debut titles of 2023 in Finland. It has sold over 35,000 copies, was nominated for the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize 2023 and the Savonia Prize 2023, won the Young Aleksis Award in 2024, and it won the BookBeat Newcomer of the Year Award of 2023!

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An honest and authentic debut novel by the winner of the Refugee Woman of the Year Award, a novel that shakes the reader to their core

A mother is escorting her daughter, trembling with fear, to the wedding suite door. This is what she’s been raised for ever since she was little, kept in wrapping paper like a precious sweet. This is the reason why she was brought back from Finland to Iraq.

“You shouldn’t have abandoned the headscarf”, her siblings say. “He is your husband now”, her mother says.

A Disobedient Girl is an astonishingly honest and authentic story about the history of subjugating and silencing women, about abandoning one’s faith, honour violence, forced marriage, Islamic purity culture, the price of freedom, and the desperate desire for the right to self-determination. Above all, it is about a fearless woman who wants to survive and change the world.