Woman at Point Zero
Nawal El Saadawi
108 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0862321107
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Language: English
Publish: September 15, 1990
AfricaClassicsEgyptFeminismFictionLiterary FictionLiteratureNovelsSchoolWomens
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.