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Woman at Point Zero - Nawal El Saadawi
Woman at Point Zero
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3.84 9365
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781842778739 (1842778730)
Publisher: Zed Books
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
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JulieM
JulieM rated it
3.0 Woman at Point Zero
This is the story of Firdaus, a girl born in Egypt to a poor family. Although she is intelligent, resourceful, and has a strong spirit, there are so few choices for her as a woman in her society. She is fortunate to have a secondary certificate (middle school?), but after being repeatedly raped, a...
Books by the Lake
Books by the Lake rated it
0.0 Woman at Point Zero
A brutal and disturbing story, this (though mercifully short). Firdaus tells her story with an incantatory force, daring the reader to try and judge her. The reader is just as implicated as the psychiatrist in the frame story, who experiences emotions told in words that echo Firdaus's. It's a compel...
Osho
Osho rated it
A tightly constructed fictional study of PTSD, deceptively simply told within a clinical frame narrative given more credibility by the author's professional work. The protagonist committed a murder after betrayal after betrayal and a reductive cultural version of male-female relations. In this cultu...
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