Saving Safa
Dirie, Waris2016
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This title 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.
Main title:
Saving Safa / Waris Dirie with Walter Lutschinger ; translated by Ruth Martin.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Virago, 2016.
Collation:
ix, 276 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the German.This translation originally published: 2015.
ISBN:
9780349005980 (pbk)
Dewey class:
392.1092392.109392.1
LC class:
GN484
Local class:
392.109
Language:
EnglishGerman
BRN:
1112114