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An Olympic Dream: The Story of Samia Yusuf Omar

by Reinhard Kleist
SelfMadeHero. Apr. 2016. 152p. tr. from German by Ivanka Hahnenberger. ISBN 9781910593097. pap. $22.95. BIOG
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OrangeReviewStarA Somalian teenage runner carries her country's flag in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and hopes to compete in the 2012 London Games. Home again, Samia faces death threats and interference from local militants. Escaping to train in Italy, she endures black market transport to Libya but disappears overboard from a smuggler's boat crossing the Mediterranean. Kleist's dramatic black brushwork puts an all-too-human face on the international refugee crisis. (LJ Xpress Reviews, 3/24/16).
Reviewed by Martha Cornog , Nov 15, 2016
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