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Because I Am a Girl

by Tim Butcher, Xiaolu Guo and Joanne Harris

  • ISBN

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    9780099535928

  • Publisher

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    Random House UK

  • Subject

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    Sociology & Anthropology, Literature: History & Criticism, Anthologies (non-poetry)

  • Binding

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    PAPERBACK

  • Pages

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    190

  • Year

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    2010

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    Seven writers, including Joanne Harris, Marie Phillips, and Irvine Welsh, spent timexA0;with a charity promoting the development of women and girlsx97;and were inspired toxA0;writexA0;an extraordinary array of stories and essays that statistics cannot conveyxA0;Irvine Welsh tells a story ofxA0;prostitutes in the Dominican Republic,xA0;while Xiaolu Guo tells of a policeman with a Khmer Rouge past. Marie Phillips takes on the sexual abuse of Ugandan schoolgirlsx97;and the outcome of the abuse. Seven authors have visited seven different countriesx97;Brazil, Togo, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Uganda, Ghana, and the Dominican Republicx97;and spoken to young women and girls about their lives, struggles, and hopes. The result is an extraordinary collection of writings based on the girls'xA0;true stories,xA0;about prejudice, abuse, and neglect, but also about courage, resilience, and changing attitudes.

  • Author Biography

    Irvine Welsh'sxA0;titles includexA0;Filth, Glue, Porno, Reheated Cabbage, and Trainspotting, which was made into a film. Joanne Harris is the author ofxA0;manyxA0;novels, including the Whitbread-shortlisted Chocolat, which was made into a film, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, Gentlemen and Players, and The Girl with No Shadow. Tim Butcher is a journalist and the author of Blood River, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Xiaolu Guo is the author of the Orange Prize-nominated A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers and a filmmaker whose films have shown at Sundace and MOMA. Deborah Moggach is the author of Tulip Fever. Kathy Lette is the author of Altar Ego. Marie PhillipsxA0;is the author ofxA0;Gods Behaving Badly.

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