Blasphemy: The true, heartbreaking story of the woman sentenced to death over a

BlasphemyThe true, heartbreaking story of the woman sentenced to death over a cup of water\nAuthor(s): Asia Bibi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom\nImprint: Virago Press Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781844088881, 978-1844088881\nSynopsis\nPunjab, Pakistan, June 2009. The temperature is 45 and Asia has been out picking fruit for several hours. It's exhausting, sweaty work, but Asia and her husband have five children to feed. At midday she goes to the nearest well, picks up a cup and takes a long drink of cool water. She refills the cup, drinks some more and then offers it to another woman.\n\nSuddenly one of her fellow workers cries out that the water belongs to the Muslim women and that with her actions, Asia - who is Christian - has contaminated it. An argument ignites and in an instant, with one word, Asia's fate is sealed. 'Blasphemy!' someone shouts. In Pakistan this is a charge punishable by death.\n\nFirst attacked by a mob, Asia was soon after thrown in.