by Cathleen Miller, Waris Dirie · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781860497490
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«Desert Flower» is the memoir by Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller, published by Virago Press in paperback (369 pages, in English).
Waris Dirie recounts her childhood in a nomadic family in Somalia, her flight from an arranged marriage at age twelve, and her journey across the desert to Mogadishu. The narrative follows her time in London as a domestic worker, her career as an international model, and her work as a UN ambassador against female genital mutilation.
Its full original title is Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad; the work received the Corine Internationaler Buchpreis in 2002.
For readers of memoirs and feminism, with an interest in life in Somalia and the defense of women's rights.
Cathleen Miller is an internationally best-selling American writer based in England. Her 2013 book, Champion of Choice, is the biography of United Nations leader Nafis Sadik.
