Aman The Story of a Somali Girl

Name: Aman The Story of a Somali Girl
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ISBN: 9780679762096

ISBN-10: 0679762094

ISBN-13: 9780679762096

Edition: N/A

Authors: Virginia Lee Barnes, Janice Boddy

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This is the extraordinary first-person account of a young woman's coming of age in Somalia and her struggles against the obligations and strictures of family and society. By the time she is nine, Aman has undergone a ritual circumcision ceremony; at eleven, her innocent romance with a white boy leads to a murder; at thirteen she is given away in an arranged marriage to a stranger. Aman eventually runs away to Mogadishu, where her beauty and rebellious spirit leads her to the decadent demimonde of white colonialists. Hers is a world in which women are both chattel and freewheeling entrepreneurs, subject to the caprices of male relatives, yet keenly aware of the loopholes that lead to…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/29/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.15" wide x 7.93" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English