Born in the big rains

Autori

• Fadumo Korn

Parametri

• 185 pagine
• 7 ore di lettura

• Africa
• Autobiografie e memorie
• Biografie e pensieri
• Femminismo
• Saggistica

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This powerful memoir portrays the life-altering transformation of a feisty nomad girl who undergoes genital excision. Crippled with rheumatism as a result of the cutting, Fadumo Korn, who once freely roamed the deserts of her native Somalia, is sent to live with a wealthy uncle, brother to the Somali president. She enters a world of luxury underpinned with political instability and cruelty, but receives an invaluable education. Korn eventually moves to Germany for therapy and recounts her life there—her marriage, the birth of her son, and her involvement in the movement to end genital cutting—with warm and inspiring humor.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2006

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