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"An extraordinary first-person account of a young woman's coming of age in Somalia during the 1950s and 1960s. Aman is an instantly recognizable story of a girl who struggles against the obligations and strictures of family and society." "Aman gives a portrait of herself as fiercely devoted to her family and culture yet searching for a better life. By the time she is eight, she has undergone a ritual clitoridectomy. 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 who attempts to deflower her with a knife. She runs away to the city, where her beauty and rebelliousness lead her to the rich, decadent demimonde of white colonialists." "Unflinchingly honest in the telling of her story, Aman emerges as a woman capable of both generosity and selfishness, love and cruelty. Hers is an astonishing history, engagingly - and necessarily - concerned with the role of women in tribal societies, female circumcision, the vicissitudes of colonialism, and the quest for female self-awareness."--BOOK JACKET.
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Biography, Girls, Social conditions, Biografía, Women, Condiciones sociales, Mujeres, MuchachasPeople
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Aman: the story of a Somali girl
1994, Pantheon Books
in English
- 1st American ed.
0679436065 9780679436065
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Amán: historia de una joven somalí
1994, Planeta/Seix Barral
in Spanish
- 1a ed.
8432240354 9788432240355
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-349).
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