Paperback, 126 pages
Published 2024 by Bloomsbury Academic.
Woman at Point Zero
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- 978-0-7556-5148-1
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Internationally acclaimed Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi's landmark novel Woman at Point Zero, published here with a new foreword.
Firdaus is on death row. Her crime, the murder of a man. Born into poverty in a rural Egyptian village, her childhood dreams and ambitions had been met with neglect and abuse by the world and the men who rule it. Driven to sex work to support herself, she is faced with the moral outrage of society and the bitter knowledge that for a woman, true freedom comes only when all hope is abandoned. In Woman at Point Zero, Firdaus tells her unforgettable story.
Translated by Sherif Hetata. Foreword by Selma Dabbagh
Subjects
- Arabic fiction
- Translations into English
- Translations from Arabic
- Feminism
- Fiction
- Social conditions
- Prostitutes
- English fiction
- Women prisoners
- Women
- Egypt, fiction
- Fiction, general
- Fiction, women