Alek - by Alek Wek (Paperback)

About the Book

This inspirational and accessible life story follows the Sudanese-born international supermodel who was forced to flee her countrys rising civil war. Eight-page color photo insert.

From the Back Cover

Alek Wek has been the face of ad campaigns for companies ranging from Coach to Michael Kors to Nars and has worked the runways on behalf of designers such as Diane von Furstenberg and Christian Dior. Yet her defining moments extend beyond the runways of New York, Milan, Paris, and London.

Born to a middle-class family in the Sudan, Wek found her life suddenly inverted when civil war broke out among outlaw militias, the Muslim-dominated government, and southern rebels. The conflict not only killed two million people, it created an entire community of refugees, including Wek's family--many of whom fled to London. Here is Wek's incredible, daring story of rising from refugee to international supermodel.

Review Quotes

"Readers will be disarmed by the down-to-earth, intimate voice in which [Wek] narrates her stratospheric rise...[an] autobiography with substance and political punch." - Kirkus Reviews
"Readers will be disarmed by the....intimate voice in which [Wek] narrates her stratospheric rise...[an] autobiography with substance." - Kirkus Reviews
"Heart-wrenching." - Sister 2 Sister Magazine
"Absorbing....Wek tells how she survived Sudan's tragic civil war and conquered the fashion world." - Essence