by Waris Dirie, Jeanne D'Haem · Blanvalet Verlag GmbH · tapa dura · ISBN 9783764501389
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«Nomadentochter» is the autobiography of Waris Dirie and Jeanne D'Haem, published by Blanvalet Verlag GmbH in hardcover (287 pages, in German).
Twenty years after fleeing Somalia, Waris Dirie returns to her homeland to reunite with her family and find out whether her relatives are still alive. The emotional reunion clashes with traditions she can no longer accept, and the experience becomes a reflection on identity, exile, and living between two cultures.
Original title: «Desert Dawn» (2001); the 2002 German edition was translated by Theda Krohm-Linke.
For readers of «Wüstenblume» and memoirs about identity, women, and cultural clash.
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).
