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The Olympic Dream: The Story of Samia Yusuf Omar

English

By (author): Reinhard Kleist

In 2008, 17-year-old Samia Yusuf Omar stood alongside some of the fastest women in the world on the start line of the Olympic 200m. Four years later, she boarded a refugee boat to Europe, risking her life on the waters of the Mediterranean.

An Olympic Dream tells the remarkable story of Samias attempt to compete at the London Games in 2012. Picturing her life in Mogadishu, a city ravaged by conflict where the female athlete encountered discrimination and abuse, Reinhard Kleist reveals the challenges she faced both as a sportsperson and as a woman. In doing so, he shows why Samia, like so many others, would choose to flee.

Following Samias journey through Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya to its tragic conclusion, An Olympic Dream is a forceful statement on Europes response to the refugee crisis. But it is also a moving account of a remarkable life, best remembered for a single moment: when an unlikely Olympian, dressed in knee-length leggings and a baggy t-shirt, finished in last place and the Birds Nest stadium erupted.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 410g
  • Dimensions: 179 x 241mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Mar 2016
  • Publisher: SelfMadeHero
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781910593097

About Reinhard Kleist

Reinhard Kleist is a world-renowned artist and graphic novelist. His graphic biography Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness has been translated into several languages and in 2007 was awarded the Peng Munich Comics Prize as well as the Frankfurt Book Fair's Sondermann prize. In 2008 it also received the Max und Moritz the most prestigious award for comics in Germany. The Boxer his graphic biography of Holocaust survivor and champion prizefighter Harry Haft was nominated for an Ignatz Award in 2014. Kleist has also illustrated books by China Mieville H.C. Artmann and J.G. Ballard; record covers for Terrorgruppe and Bear Family Records; and on a large scale various house facades around Berlin.

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