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Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi · Booklabria

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First published: 1983
Language: English
Editions: 7

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: Women
Social conditions
Roman
Feminism
Egypt
Prostitutes
Set in: Egypt
Cairo

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