Excelente libro, nos hace pensar en esas mujeres victimas de la ignorancia de una cultura

En bok som rörde upp många känslor kring hur kvinnor behandlades/behandlas i länder som t.ex. Somalia. Jag förstår verkligen inte varför kvinnor och män ska behandlas så olika och att kvinnor inte får göra vissa saker som män får.

Jag tycker att Waris Dirie är en oerhört modig ung kvinna som vågar stå upp mot de saker som är "vanliga" i hennes hemland och kämpa för att det ska undanskaffas. Som det här med könsstympning. Det ju helt sjuk!!! Liksom hur kom man ens på det här??

Förlåt, det är mycket känslor och tankar kring det som boken tar upp och därav blir det bara den här korta recensionen och ingen på bloggen, för det går inte att sätta ord på all den ilska som man känner mot könsstympning.

Great book, as wonderful as her first.

This time, Waris describes going home and seeing all her family for the first time in 20 years.

The diffrences between the woman that left, and the woman that returns is quite marked, and I enjoyed this book very much.

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Very fascinating read about Somalia - of which I knew so little beforehand. And in some respects it sounds a bit nightmarish living there - eg. repression of women, female circumcision. But Waris is a Somalian herself, equally frustrated by these problems and yet she still loves her country and her people and this really comes through in her writing and allows you to see other aspects of the country.

She ran away from the country in her early teens to escape an arranged marriage and ended up becoming a model in the States - knowing little about fashion, I have never heard of her! This book is about a trip she takes back to Somalia to see her parents again after 20 years of living abroad. Her mother is an amazing character - so tough and independant.

It's also interesting to see the comparisons between Western and African lifestyles and attitudes. The chapter about her baby and the shock attitude of the American mother-in-law was one particular example. Although I get the impression that the mother-in-law would still have been telling her what to do whether she was African or not.

DREADFUL