- Arabic fiction, Translations into English, Translations from Arabic, Feminism
From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells of her life from village childhood to city prostitute. Society's retribution for her act of defiance - death - she welcomes as the only way she can finally be free.
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Grave, earnest, bleak and contemporary.
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- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Nawal El Saadawi
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 111
- Publisher
- Zed, Zed Press, Zed Books Ltd.
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780862325176
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