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Alek

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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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Publisher: HarperCollins
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Kindle Book

  • ISBN: 9780061857447
  • Release date: December 15, 2023

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780061857447
  • Release date: December 15, 2023

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780061857447
  • File size: 1436 KB
  • Release date: December 15, 2023

PDF ebook

  • ISBN: 9780061857447
  • File size: 1733 KB
  • Release date: December 15, 2023

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook
PDF ebook

Languages

English

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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  • Details

    Publisher:
    HarperCollins

    Awards:

    Kindle Book
    ISBN: 9780061857447
    Release date: December 15, 2023

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780061857447
    Release date: December 15, 2023

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780061857447
    File size: 1436 KB
    Release date: December 15, 2023

    PDF ebook
    ISBN: 9780061857447
    File size: 1733 KB
    Release date: December 15, 2023

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
    PDF ebook
  • Languages
    English