Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl by Virginia Lee Barnes

Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl


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ISBN: 9780307554345 | 368 pages | 19 Mb

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Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl Virginia Lee Barnes
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group


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 ...

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