by Waris Dirie · Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442359820
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«Nomadentochter» is the memoir by Waris Dirie, published by Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH in paperback (287 pages, in German).
After nearly twenty years of exile, Waris Dirie returns to Somalia driven by a personal crisis. During that time she has not known whether her family was still alive in a country ravaged by war and famine. The reunion with her parents and siblings forces her to confront her current life with her roots and to reassess her identity between two worlds.
Work originally published as Desert Dawn (2001); German translation by Theda Krohm-Linke.
For readers of memoirs and biographies with an interest in Africa, the history of Somalia, and stories about identity and family.
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).
