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Desert Flower

The Extraordinary Life of a Desert Nomad

Dirie, Waris

Desert Flower

Desert Flower

The Extraordinary Life of a Desert Nomad

Desert Flower

 

Paperback edition of this remarkable story, recounting how Waris Diri ran away from her family in her native Somalia after being a victim of female circumcision, and became a successful model after being discovered working in a McDonalds in London.

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Beschrijving Desert Flower

* Inspirational, dramatic and extraordinary - the autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 5, sold in marriage at 13, who became an American model and is now at the young age of 30, the UN spokeswoman against circumcision

ISBN
9781860497582
Pagina's
256
Verschenen
NUR
741
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Paperback / softback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Little, Brown Book Group

Sand Rush

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