Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad

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Waris Dirie escaped from her native Galkayo, Somalia, fleeing to Mogadishu to escape an arranged marriage.

At the same time, she makes a complaint of this inhumane practice, putting her own contribution in the struggle to eradicate this inhuman practice, a struggle that shows the first positive results 20 years after the writing of the book.

An important book that manages to pass its message without melodramatics and exaggerations, talking about the difficulties but above all about the joy of life. This is an autobiography of a very resilient and head-strong Somali woman who up and left her desert nomadic clan.

The fact that it is growing, not declining is awful, and that the practise is spreading due to those faiths and nationalitys that carry this practise out are emigrating to other lands, is a revolting thought. Using an old razor blade, a woman cut off all parts of the author's genitals: labia major, labia minor, and clitoris, leaving in their place a tiny hole through which both urine and menstrual blood were supposed to flow. Landing a job as a house servant in London, Dirie struggled to launch a modeling career while dodging British immigration authorities and the dreadful results of marriages of convenience.El punto central de esta historia, y la razón por la que Waris ha querido contarla es la ablación femenina. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Waris was also interviewed by Laura Ziv for the magazine Marie Claire, in which she decided to tell about the cruel ritual of female genital mutilation and also her own destiny resulting in a wave of sympathy and protest worldwide against FGM. I read it within 24 hours, and found myself mesmerised by this womans story, and how she overcame obstacles that most of us wouldn't dream of, to get to where she is today.