Asni

by Nasrin Siege

Ein reicher Farmer, der im äthiopischen Hochland Drogen anbaut, begehrt das Mädchen Asni als Zweitfrau. Sie wehrt sich, doch ihr eigener Vater zwingt sie, die Schule aufzugeben und ins Dorf des Farmers zu gehen. Bald entscheidet sie sich, wegzulaufen, und flieht als Muslima verkleidet, nach Addis Abeba. Asni schuftet als Haushaltshilfe, läuft erneut weg und lebt schließlich mit anderen Kindern auf der Straße. Bis der Chat-Farmer ihre kleine Schwester als Zweitfrau fordert …

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Published March 5, 2020

About the author

Nasrin Siege is a German Author, born in Persia (Iran). Her parents immigrated to Germany when Nasrin was nine years old. She studied Psychology in Kiel and worked as a Psychotherapist at a Psychosomatic Clinic in Frankfurt. She first moved to Tanzania in 1983 with her husband and daughter. Since then she lived with her family (her son was born in 1985 in Kenya) -with short breaks in Germany - in Zambia, Tanzania, Madagascar and since June 2008 in Ethiopia. Nasrin Siege's books have been published in Germany. Some of her novels have been translated in other languages (Japanese, Greek, Dutch, Italian, Malagasy and Danish).
Her book “Die Piraten von Libertalia” has been published by Bloomsbury Children and Youth Book Berlin in February 2009. Her book "Ich kehre zurück, Dadabé" is published by Brandes & Apsel. The Madagasy version "Hiverina aho,Dadabe" has been published 2013 by Vakoka Vakiteny in Madagascar. In March her book "Die Spur des Elefanten" has been published by Razamba Publishing.

Nasrin Siege has been a member of the board of Dogodogo Centre Street Children Trust and has been working at the project from 1994-2003.
Nasrin Siege, together with friends, founded in 1996 the NGO “Help for Africa e.V.” (http://www.hilfefuerafrika.de)with which she is since supporting children projects in Tanzania, Zambia, Madagascar and Ethiopia.

In 1994 she received for her books "Sombo, das Mädchen vom Fluss" and "Wie der Fluss in meinem Dorf" the children books Award of the Berlin Senate.
In 2006, she received the Austrian Two Wings Award for her collection of traditional African stories(Kalulu)and for her continuous contributions as a development aid worker in different children's projects in several African countries.