by Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller · Weltbild Verlag GmbH · tapa dura · ISBN 9783896045218
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«Wüstenblume» is the autobiography of Waris Dirie written with Cathleen Miller, published by Weltbild Verlag in hardcover (347 pages, in German).
Waris Dirie recounts her nomadic childhood in the Somali desert, the flight to escape an arranged marriage, and the journey that takes her from Mogadishu to London, where she works as a maid before being discovered by a fashion photographer. Her rise as an international model makes her a UN ambassador, and she uses that visibility to denounce female genital mutilation.
Work originally published in English as «Desert Flower» in 1998; the German edition received the Corine Internationaler Buchpreis 2002 in the Sachbuch category.
The focus on women's rights advocacy and social activism makes it suitable for book clubs and biography readers.
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).
