Woman at Point Zero
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Arabic fiction
Text
Women prisoners
Egypt, fiction
Prostitutes
Fiction, women
Roman
Feminism
English fiction
Translations into English
Women
Social conditions
Fiction, general
Fiction
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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