WHO KNOWS TOMORROW: A MEMOIR OF FINDING FAMILY AMONG THE LOST CHILDREN OF AFRICA(OLD TITLE: SOMEBODY’S CHILD)
Book ID/图书代码： 06840014B68164
English Summary/英文概要： A lead title from Weinstein Books!As lush, exotic and personal as Eat, Pray, Love, and as inspirational and moving as Little Princes, Somebody’s Child combines the bestseller potential of international adventure with the flair and appeal of the high fashion biography.
In the summer of 1985, at age 18, a poor, bookish young woman named Lisa Lovatt-Smith wins an essay contest that lands her a plum internship at Anna Wintour’s British Vogue. It is a dazzling, extravagant time in fashion, and Lisa quickly shows a talent for the work. Within a year, Wintour makes Lisa Photo Editor, the youngest photo editor in the history of Conde Nast. Lisa’s meteoric rise continues, and at 21 she is tapped to launch and run Spanish Vogue. Lisa’s life is a brilliant kaleidoscope of front row center seats at fashion shows, lavish celebrityfilled parties, and spectacular gifts from the world’s top designers.
Five year old Leila shows up outside Lisa’s door one cold spring morning with a dirty face and a flimsy dress. Unsupervised, she is left to fend for herself by her disinterested, drugaddled family. Lisa’s concern for Leila’s safety grows until she feels compelled to take action. Against the advice of family and colleagues, she fosters and then adopts Leila. As the two grow closer, Lisa realizes the full, shocking extent of the abuse Leila has suffered. As a teenager Leila acts out in a series of disturbing behaviors, and on the advice of a counselor, a distraught Lisa journeys to Ghana with Leila to work in an orphanage, an experience she hopes will teach Leila empathy and mend their increasingly rocky relationship. The trip proves transformational, and not just for Leila. Confronted with the grim reality of the suffering of Africa’s most vulnerable children, Lisa dumps her spectacular fashion career and relocates to Ghana to begin a long, brutal struggle to reform their system of corrupt, unlicensed orphanages.
Somebody’s Child is that rare memoir that lifts you up and leaves you reeling; it is a harrowing but ultimately exultant book from which readers emerge changed. Beyond the loss of creature comforts and fancy friends, Lisa confronts terrible dangers in her resolve to help Africa’s children, including death threats, armed robbery and assault, and arson. Readers will marvel at the extraordinary strength and grit of a woman who makes painful personal sacrifices to forge a better future for others.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： A lead title from Weinstein Books!一趟旅程 一個「I can do something」的念頭
Vogue天之驕女毅然踏上非洲貧苦之地奉獻自我
年僅18歲即獲得Vogue雜誌文章徵選，取得實習資格！
一年後獲得穿著Prada的惡魔 - Anna Wintour青睞，升遷為Conde Nast集團內最年輕的Photo Editor！
21歲就當上西班牙Vogue發行人！
年紀輕輕，人生一路順遂，Lisa Lovatt-Smith總是受邀坐在時尚走秀的第一排座位，每天的日子充滿著富商名人的奢華時尚趴、還有世界頂尖設計師送來巴結的繽紛禮物…。
她的人生在一位五歲小女孩出現在門前時徹底翻轉。
有張髒兮兮的小臉，小女孩明顯流浪許久。Lisa決定領養她，但小女孩遭受虐待的過往痕跡卻在她日漸顯露的偏差行為中表現出來。為了矯正孩子的行為，Lisa帶她到非洲加納(Ghana)的孤兒院做義工。
這趟旅程徹底改變Lisa和女兒。在非洲之旅後的一年半裡，Lisa毅然拋下光鮮亮麗的時尚生活。她賣掉房子，離開時尚產業，創立協助孤兒的慈善機構OrphanAid(http://www.oafrica.org/)。但她的動作卻引來了死亡恐嚇、人口販子的威脅、持械搶劫攻擊以及惡意縱火，同時她也得面對當地蔓延的愛滋病疫情...。
(Eva)
Awards/获奖情况：本書作者Lisa Lovatt-Smith榮獲以下獎項肯定：
2012 Clarins Most Dynamic Woman prize
2012 Face Africa Humanitarian Award如《享受吧！一個人的旅行》自我探索，如《親愛的小王子》激勵、感動人心，歐美雜誌爭相訪問Lisa的奇妙經驗，法國還以她為主題拍攝紀錄片。
介紹Lisa Lovatt-Smith的影片(英語)：
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrxI2Bnedgw
關於Lisa Lovatt-Smith所創立的孤兒幫助組織OrphanAid（法語）：
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZZrjjqJEzw
紐約時報訪問：
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/jobs/for-orphanaid-africas-chief-a-life-changing-journey.html?_r=0
About the Author/作者介绍： Today, Lisa Lovatt-Smith lives in a mud hut in Ghana, from which she oversees her nonprofit institution OrphanAid Africa. She currently directs a sustainable fostering center for hundreds of orphaned and vulnerable children, and her work has been honored with prestigious awards, notably the 2012 Clarins Most Dynamic Woman Prize, and the 2012 Face Africa Humanitarian Award. She has been the subject of a French documentary film, and is repeatedly featured in Europe’s leading women’s magazines. Earlier this year, she was profiled in The New York Times.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights Sold: France(pre-empt)/Editions Arthaud
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