by Cathleen Miller, Waris Dirie · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783426783429
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«Wüstenblume – Buch zum Film» is the autobiography of Waris Dirie with Cathleen Miller, published by Droemer Knaur in paperback (375 pages, in German).
In this autobiography, Waris Dirie, born into a nomadic family in Somalia, recounts her harsh childhood, the genital mutilation she suffered at age five, and her escape from a forced marriage. Her career as an international model leads her to denounce this practice and fight for women's rights as a UN ambassador.
This German edition, subtitled 'Buch zum Film', adds photographs from the movie and additional material. The work won the Corine Prize 2002 in the non-fiction category.
For readers of biographies and testimonies about women's rights, as well as for reading clubs.
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.
