This powerful memoir portrays the life-altering transformation of a feisty nomad girl who undergoes genital excision. Crippled with rheumatism as a result of the cutting, Fadumo Korn, who once freely roamed the deserts of her native Somalia, is sent to live with a wealthy uncle, brother to the Somali president. She enters a world of luxury underpinned with political instability and cruelty, but receives /5(6). · Fadumo Korn was born into a nomadic Somali tribe in , and her childhood was unusually free for a Somalian girl. Though her parents doted on her, they did not spare her the culturally prescribed ordeal of female circumcision when she was seven years old/5(21). · KORN, Fadumo. Born in the big rains; a memoir of Somalia and survival. Feminist Press. p. notes. c $ SA* Born in the Somalian desert, Fadumo Husen was a happy child in a loving nomadic family, but everything changed for her when, at the age of seven, she was circumcised.
KORN, Fadumo. Born in the big rains; a memoir of Somalia and survival. Feminist Press. p. notes. c $ SA* Born in the Somalian desert, Fadumo Husen was a happy child in a loving nomadic family, but everything changed for her when, at the age of seven, she was circumcised. Born In The Big Rains PDF Books Download Born In The Big Rains PDF www.doorway.ru full book title Born In The Big Rains by Fadumo Korn, the book also available in format PDF, EPUB, and Mobi Format, to read online books or download Born In The Big Rains full books, Click Get Books for free access, and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival by Fadumo Korn, Sabine Eichhorst (Paperback, ) at the best online prices at eBay!
With this “courageous indispensable testament,” Fadumo Korn weaves together a sensitive understanding of traditional practices with revelations about their disturbing effects. Full of sorrow. Fadumo Korn weaves together a sensitive understanding of Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival. Writer and radio journalist Sabine Eichhorst is the author of Dr. Tobe Levin is. This "impassioned, beautifully written memoir" by a survivor of female circumcision is a "brutally honest" story of tragedy and triumph (Publishers Weekly). As a nomad, Fadumo Korn freely roamed the wild steppes of her native Somalia until her mother delivered her into the hands of an "excisor" to become a woman in the eyes of her tribe by undergoing female genital cutting.
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