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Alek, September 2007
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From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel
Amistad
September 2007
On Sale: August 28, 2007
224 pages
ISBN: 0061243310
EAN: 9780061243318
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Since the day she was scouted by a modeling agent while
shopping at a London street fair when she was just nineteen,
Alek Wek's life has been nothing short of a fantasy. When
she's not the featured model in print campaigns for hip
companies, or gracing the cover of Elle, she is working the
runways of Paris, New York, and Milan to model for the
world's leading designers, including Karl Lagerfeld for
Chanel. But nothing in her early years prepared her for the
life of a model. Born in Wau, in the southern Sudan, Alek knew only a few
years of peace with her family before they were caught up in
a ruthless civil war that pitted outlaw militias, the
Muslim-dominated government, and southern rebels against
each other in a brutal conflict that killed nearly two
million people. Here is her daring story of fleeing the war
on foot and her escape to London, where her rise from young
model to supermodel was all the more notable because of
Alek's non-European looks. A probe into the Sudanese conflict and an inside look into
the life of a most unique supermodel, Alek is a book that
will inspire as well as inform.
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