Because I Am a Girl - Softcover

Butcher, Tim; Guo, Xiaolu; Harris, Joanne; Lette, Kathy; Phillips, Marie; Welsh, Irvine; Moggach, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099535920 ISBN 13: 9780099535928

Publisher: Random House UK, 2011

Synopsis

Seven writers, including Joanne Harris, Marie Phillips, and Irvine Welsh, spent time with a charity promoting the development of women and girls—and were inspired to write an extraordinary array of stories and essays that statistics cannot convey Irvine Welsh tells a story of prostitutes in the Dominican Republic, while Xiaolu Guo tells of a policeman with a Khmer Rouge past. Marie Phillips takes on the sexual abuse of Ugandan schoolgirls—and the outcome of the abuse. Seven authors have visited seven different countries—Brazil, Togo, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Uganda, Ghana, and the Dominican Republic—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' true stories, about prejudice, abuse, and neglect, but also about courage, resilience, and changing attitudes.

About this title

About the Author:

Irvine Welsh's titles include Filth, Glue, Porno, Reheated Cabbage, and Trainspotting, which was made into a film. Joanne Harris is the author of many 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 Phillips is the author of Gods Behaving Badly.

Review:

"Edgy and bold...not your standard do-good, feel-good collection at all" -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0099535920
• ISBN 13: 9780099535928
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190