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Desert Flower - Waris Dirie

 

Description: ISBN 1860497586 / Author: Fictionis Dirie / Genre: Biography

Newest Review: ... to get married to an elderly man and has arranged to sell her for a few camels. With her mothers help she flees to the city ... more

 ... to live a life of freedom and eventually ends up in London as a servant to her uncle, the Somali ambassador. The culture shock is huge for a girl who has never seen a white person, used a flush toilet or even worn shoes before. The skills needed to survive in the desert are very different from what you need to do to survive in a big city. She has little freedom until she is 18 and while working as a cleaner in Mcdonalds does her first photoshoot. Of course life still does not run smoothly for Waris with many more drama...more

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wigglylittleworm
Premium Review Desert Flower - Waris Dirie: A Tale Of Rags To Riches (653 words)
by wigglylittleworm - written on 14.08.08 (Very useful, 59 readings)
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We have all heard many stories of people working their way up from a tough upbringing to live a life of luxury but this book is different from the norm. In her autobiography Waris Dirie tells us how she made the journey from growing up as part of a nomadic tribe in Somalia to supermodel. Life was tough growing up as one of twelve siblings in the Somalian desert. The families home was a fabric tent and they moved around with their herd of goats and camels to find water and land to graze on. At the age of five Waris was circumsised as is the custom for Somali girls, something which continues to haunt her for her whole life. Although life is hard she describes a ...

RuthUpton
Premium Review Desert Flower by Waris Dirie (175 words)
by RuthUpton - written on 16.07.00 (Useful, 1393 readings)
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If you enjoy reading biographies/autobiographies, please do not let this book pass you by. It is the story of Waris Dirie. One of twelve children, born into a traditional family of tribal desert nomads in East Africa. when she was five years old she had to endure the torture of female circumcision, having seen others die from this barbaric custom. At the age of twelve her father arranged a marriage with a sixty year old stranger. She was worth five camels... Instead she ran away. She survived the dangerous Somalian desert and managed to get to London where she worked for one of her relatives, the Somalian ambassador. When the family returned ...

 

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