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Record ID marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part41.utf8:345893981:2982
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LEADER: 02982cam a22004577i 4500
001 2014481733
003 DLC
005 20151001081844.0
008 141118t20152013enka 000 0 eng d
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn912308965
040 $aEUW$beng$cEUW$erda$dNZHPC$dOCLCO$dCDX$dYDXCP$dDLC
041 1 $aeng$hund
042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aGN484$b.D5613 2015
082 04 $a392.1096$223
100 1 $aDirie, Waris,$eauthor.
240 10 $aRettung der kleinen Wüstenblume.$lEnglish.
245 10 $aSaving Safa /$cWaris Dirie with Walter Lutschinger ; translated by Ruth Martin.
264 1 $aLondon :$bVirago Press,$c[2015]
264 4 $c©2013
300 $aix, 276 pages :$bblack and white illustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aTitle on cover: Saving Safa : rescuing a little girl from FGM.
500 $a"First published in Germany in 2013 by Knaur Verlag" : 'Safa: Die Rettung der kleinen Wüstenblume'
520 $aWaris 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. Waris brings them to Paris and to Vienna, they learn about the foundation and Safa's father finally comes round to the idea of working for the foundation as well. 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
600 10 $aNour, Safa.
600 10 $aDirie, Waris.
610 20 $aDesert Flower Foundation.
650 0 $aFemale circumcision$zAfrica.
650 0 $aFemale circumcision$xSocial aspects$zAfrica.
650 0 $aFemale circumcision$zAfrica$xPrevention.
650 0 $aWomen$zAfrica.
650 0 $aNon-governmental organizations$zAfrica.
650 12 $aCircumcision, Female.
700 1 $aLutschinger, Walter,$eauthor.
700 1 $aMartin, Ruth,$etranslator.