Virginia Lee Barnes (Livres)

Virginia Lee Barnes Livres

Cette auteure explore les aspects profonds de l'expérience humaine et des structures sociales. Son travail se distingue par sa vision détaillée et pénétrante de la nature du comportement humain et de son impact sur le monde qui nous entoure. Par une recherche et une analyse minutieuses, l'auteure dévoile les complexités des vies humaines et leur place dans un contexte historique et social plus large. Son écriture offre une perspective unique sur les thèmes qui façonnent notre société et nos parcours individuels.

Aman

368pages
13 heures de lecture

3,8(626)Évaluer

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 freedom. Aman is an astonishing history, opening a window onto traditional Somali life and the universal quest for female self-awareness.