num_pages: 256
description: Waris Dirie ran away from her oppressive life in the African desert when she was barely in her teens, illiterate and impoverished, with nothing to her name but a tattered shawl. She traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu — the first leg of a remarkable journey that would take her to London, where she worked as a house servant; then to nearly every corner of the globe as an internationally renowned fashion model; and ultimately to New York City, where she became a human rights ambassador for the U.N. Desert Flower is her extraordinary story.
language: English
title: Desert Flower
titlecomplete: Desert Flower
genres: Biography, Africa, Somalia, Womens, Feminism, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Contemporary, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 32798
places: Somalia, Mogadishu
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Corine Internationaler Buchpreis
category: Sachbuch
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks