Born in the Big Rains
A Memoir of Somalia and Survival
New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2006.
Format: Book
Description: 185 pages ; 23 cm
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 an invaluable education. Korn eventually moves to Germany for therapy and recounts her life there--her marriage, the birth of her son, and her involvement in the movement to end genital cutting--with warm and inspiring humor.
Contents:
Nomadic life -- In Mogadishu -- In Germany -- Epilogue.
Subjects:
Korn, Fadumo, 1964-
Female circumcision -- Somalia -- Case studies.
Female circumcision -- Somalia -- Psycological aspects.
Somalis -- Germany -- Biography.
Women, Somali -- Germany -- Biography.
Somalia -- Social life and customs.
Korn, Fadumo, 1964-
Female circumcision -- Somalia -- Case studies.
Female circumcision -- Somalia -- Psycological aspects.
Somalis -- Germany -- Biography.
Women, Somali -- Germany -- Biography.
Somalia -- Social life and customs.
ISBN:
1558615318 (trade cloth)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Korn, Fadumo | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
"Originally published under the title Geboren im grossen Regen, c2004 by Rowohlt Verlag"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-183).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-183).