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Mijn Woestijn Druk Heruitgave
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Author : W. Dirie
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-03
Mijn Woestijn Druk Heruitgave written by W. Dirie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03 with categories.
Mijn Woestijn
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Author : Waris Dirie
language : nl
Publisher: Karakter
Release Date : 2014-02-11
Mijn Woestijn written by Waris Dirie and has been published by Karakter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Als haar vader haar wil uithuwelijken aan een veel oudere man rent de dertienjarige Waris Dirie weg van huis. Ze gaat naar Londen, waar ze als huishoudster voor haar oom werkt en later bij McDonald's. Dan wordt ze ontdekt door een fotograaf en begint een glansrijke carrière als model. In Mijn woestijn vertelt Waris over haar kinderjaren in Somalië, inclusief hoe ze op vijfjarige leeftijd werd besneden. We volgen haar daarna in haar vlucht naar het Westen en zien hoe ze haar verleden overwon en een succesvolle carrière als model combineerde met haar strijd tegen vrouwenbesnijdenissen. Mijn woestijn is de wereldwijde bestseller die uitgroeide tot de belangrijkste inspirerende autobiografie van deze tijd. 'Een verhaal van buitengewone moed' - Elton John
Mijn Woestijn Druk 1
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Author : W. Dirie
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-09
Mijn Woestijn Druk 1 written by W. Dirie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09 with categories.
Desert Flower
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Author : Waris Dirie
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-06-06
Desert Flower written by Waris Dirie and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An “outstandingly dramatic and moving” memoir of fleeing a brutal girlhood in Somalia—and becoming a supermodel and UN special ambassador (Kirkus Reviews). To escape an arranged marriage to a sixty-year-old man, Waris Dirie ran away from her oppressive life in the African desert when she was barely in her teens, illiterate and impoverished, with nothing to her name but a tattered shawl. She traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu—the first leg of a remarkable journey that would take her to London, where she worked as a house servant; then to nearly every corner of the globe as an internationally renowned fashion model; and ultimately to New York City, where she became a human rights ambassador for the U.N. Poignant and powerfully told, Desert Flower is Waris’s extraordinary story. “Affecting and at times very entertaining . . . it is Dirie’s remarkable lack of narcissism or entitlement that makes her so captivating a raconteur.” —Publishers Weekly “Written with innocence and warmth, this book shows how one woman’s tragedy can help others.” —The New York Times Book Review “Waris’s story is one of remarkable courage. From the deserts of Somalia to the world of high fashion, she battles against oppression and emerges a real champion. She is the most beautiful inspiration to anyone.” —Elton John
Saving Safa
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Author : Waris Dirie
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-07-02
Saving Safa written by Waris Dirie and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Waris Dirie, the Somalia nomad who became a supermodel, and an anti-FGM activist, first came to the world's attention with the publication of her autobiography, Desert Flower. The book was subsequently made into a film and little Safa Nour, from one of the slums of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, was chosen to play the young Waris. The book and the film record many extraordinary things - from facing down a tiger, to being discovered by a famous photographer in London - but it also tells the grim story of female circumcision, an ordeal that the young Waris had to endure. Saving Safa opens with a letter from Safa, now aged seven, who explains that she is worried that she will undergo FGM in spite of the contract her parents have signed with Dirie's Desert Flower Foundation stating that they will never have their daughter cut. Waris drops everything and flies to Djibouti where she meets Safa's father and mother who thinks her daughter should be cut to stop the community ostracising them. As Safa was saved from FGM through a contract with her parents, the Foundation believes a thousand other girls can be saved through providing their families with aid in return for a promise not to mutilate their daughters
The White Masai
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Author : Corinne Hofmann
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-07-30
The White Masai written by Corinne Hofmann and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Corinne Hofmann falls in love with a Masai warrior while on holiday with her boyfriend in Kenya. After overcoming all sorts of obstacles, she moves into a tiny shack with him and his mother in his village, and spends four years in Kenya. Slowly but surely the dream starts to crumble until she flees back home with her baby daughter born out of the seemingly indestructible love between a white European woman and a Masai. This is a major feature film to be released in the UK 2006.
A Foolish Virgin
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Author : Ida Simons
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-11-03
A Foolish Virgin written by Ida Simons and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-03 with Fiction categories.
It is the middle of the roaring twenties, and Gittel is living The Hague with her parents, whose blazing rows are the traditional preserve of Sundays and public holidays. What luck, then, that Gittel is Jewish, and must submit to "the double helping of public holidays that is the lot of Jewish families". After every matrimonial slanging match, Gittel's mother runs off to her parents' home in Antwerp - with her daugher in tow. Much to her delight, Gittel makes the acquaintance of the well-to-do Mardell family, who allow her to practise on their Steinway. Gittel feels that she is taken seriously by Mr Mardell, the head of the household, and by thirty-year-old Lucie, whom she adores. When these friendships turn out to be nothing but an illusion, Gittel learns her first lessons about trust and betrayal. Her second comes soon after, when her father, whose talents for business leave much to be desired, attempts to make a quick killing in Berlin on the eve of the Wall Street Crash. Though this intimate portrayal of familial strife is set in the shadow of the Holocaust, Simons says little about the horror that awaits her characters, yet she succeeds in giving the reader the sense that the novel is about more than a young girl's loss of innocence. In a fluid, almost casual style, she has written a masterly and timeless ode to a relatively carefree interlude in a dark and dramatic period. Translated from the Dutch by Liz Waters
The Blood Of Flowers
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Author : Anita Amirrezvani
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-04-01
The Blood Of Flowers written by Anita Amirrezvani and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Fiction categories.
'Sensuous and transporting... filled with the colours, tastes and fragrances of life in 17th century Isfahan. Amirrezvani clearly knows and loves the ways of old Iran, and brings them to life with the cadences of a skilled story-spinner' Geraldine Brooks THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is a mesmerizing historical novel about a young Iranian woman whose destiny changes on the sudden death of her father. Forced to leave their village, the woman and her mother travel to the beautiful city of Isfahan, where they are taken in by an uncle, a wealthy carpet designer, and his unsympathetic wife. When an ill-considered action results in the heroine's fall from grace, she is forced into an extraordinary secret marriage. Spirited and rebellious, she wants to be free to live a life her own choosing, if she can find a way. 'The most wonderful book... Fascinating, totally original and utterly gripping' Esther Freud 'The prose... positively glows on the page, and the characterisation is similarly acute, notably of the wonderfully drawn heroine. As a journey into a society that will be alien to most readers, this is a remarkable achievement' Barry Forshaw
Freedom
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Author : Malika Oufkir
language : en
Publisher: Miramax Books
Release Date : 2006-10-16
Freedom written by Malika Oufkir and has been published by Miramax Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The author describes her return to the world after twenty years in a Moroccan jail, as she struggled to adjust to the modern world, understand the reality of freedom, fall in love, and experience an intimate relationship for the first time.
Desert Dawn
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Author : Waris Dirie
language : en
Publisher: Virago Press
Release Date : 2004
Desert Dawn written by Waris Dirie and has been published by Virago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie is a remarkable woman, born into a traditional family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia. She told her story - enduring, at five years old, the ancient and savage custom of female circumcision; running away at twelve on foot through the desert in order to escape an arranged marriage; being discovered by Terence Donovan as she worked as a cleaner in London; and becoming a top fashion model - in her book, the worldwide bestseller, Desert Flower. Although Waris Dirie fled her homeland, she never forgot the country and culture that moulded her. The world of famine and violence, where women have no voice and no place - the very world that nearly destroyed her also gave her the tools to survive. She traces the roots of her courage, resilience and humour back to her motherland, and most particularly to her mother. Desert Dawn is the story of that return and a testimony to the stubborn fact that you can love something dearly and yet not love all that it represents. Desert Dawn is about coming home.