by Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller · Garzanti Libri · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788811665380
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«Fiore del deserto. Storia di una donna» is the autobiography of Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller, published by Garzanti Libri in paperback (315 pages, in Italian).
Autobiography of Waris Dirie, born in the Somali desert, recounting her nomadic childhood, the female genital mutilation she suffered, her escape to Mogadishu and London, and her career as an international model, until becoming an activist against female circumcision and a defender of women's rights.
Work originally published as «Desert Flower» in 1998; this 2000 Italian edition received the Corine Internationaler Buchpreis award in 2002.
For readers interested in memoirs of overcoming adversity, feminism, human rights and real testimonies about Africa.
Waris Dirie is a Somali model, author, actress and human rights activist in the fight against female genital mutilation (FGM). From 1997 to 2003, she was a UN special ambassador against FGM. In 2002 she founded her own organization in Vienna, the Desert Flower Foundation. She has won numerous awards recognizing her work on eradicating FGM, including the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (2007).
