Cover of Pillars of Salt

Pillars of Salt

by Fadia Faqir

1997 230 pages eng

A novel on the lot of Arab women. Set in Jordan in the 1940s, the protagonists are two women in a mental hospital who exchange stories. One is a mother of eight who was repudiated by her husband so he could marry a younger woman. By a Jordanian writing in English, author of Nisanit.

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