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Darfur tale to Hodder

05.10.07

Judith Longman at Hodder has paid a mid five-figure sum for the first memoir from a woman born and raised in south Darfur.

Halima Bashir's Tears of the Desert, written with Damien Lewis, tells of Bashir's idyllic tribal upbringing and the increasing horror of Arab militia attacks. Bashir will relate how she spoke out against the rape of her fellow-Sudanese and how she was then interrogated, raped and tortured herself. She now lives in London.

Longman bought UK and Commonwealth rights and serial rights from Felicity Bryan and believes the book will be one of the big memoirs of next year. She publishes in August 2008 in hardback. "It just feels such a privilege to have a first-hand account from Darfur, before and after the genocide," she said.

Rights deal Hodder Halima Bashir

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