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- 369 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
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Waris Dirie (the name means desert flower) lives a double life - by day she is a famous model and UN spokeswoman on women's rights in Africa, at night she dreams of her native Somalia. Waris, one of 12 children, was born into a traditional family of desert nomads in East Africa. She remembers her early childhood as carefree- racing camels and moving on with her family to the next grazing spot - until it came her turn to meet the old woman who administered the ancient custom imposed on most Somalian girls: circumcision. Waris suffered this torture when she was just five years old. Then, aged 12, when her father attempted to arrange a marriage with a 60 year old stranger in exchange for five camels - she took flight. After an extraordinary escape through the dangerous desert she made her way to London and worked as a maid for the Somalian ambassador until that family returned home. Penniless and speaking little English, she became a janitor in McDonalds where she was famously discovered by a fashion photographer. Her story is a truly inspirational and extraordinary self-portrait of a remarkable woman whose spirit is as breathtaking as her beauty.
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Desert Flower, Waris Dirie
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- Publicado en
- 1999
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- Título
- Desert Flower
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Waris Dirie
- Editorial
- Virago Press
- Publicado en
- 1999
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 369
- ISBN10
- 1860497497
- ISBN13
- 9781860497490
- Serie
- La Flor del Desierto
- Etiquetas
- Historias reales, Biografías, Mujeres, Autobiografías y memorias, Feminismo, Gran Bretaña, África, Adaptada al cine, Londres, Escape, Basado en hechos reales, Novelas autobiográficas, Desiertos, Mutilación Genital Femenina, Literatura somalí
- Primera publicación
- 1998
- Título original
- Desert Flower
- Calificación
- 4,15 de 5
- Descripción
- Waris Dirie (the name means desert flower) lives a double life - by day she is a famous model and UN spokeswoman on women's rights in Africa, at night she dreams of her native Somalia. Waris, one of 12 children, was born into a traditional family of desert nomads in East Africa. She remembers her early childhood as carefree- racing camels and moving on with her family to the next grazing spot - until it came her turn to meet the old woman who administered the ancient custom imposed on most Somalian girls: circumcision. Waris suffered this torture when she was just five years old. Then, aged 12, when her father attempted to arrange a marriage with a 60 year old stranger in exchange for five camels - she took flight. After an extraordinary escape through the dangerous desert she made her way to London and worked as a maid for the Somalian ambassador until that family returned home. Penniless and speaking little English, she became a janitor in McDonalds where she was famously discovered by a fashion photographer. Her story is a truly inspirational and extraordinary self-portrait of a remarkable woman whose spirit is as breathtaking as her beauty.