Woman at Point Zero
About this book
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
- arabic fiction
- egypt, fiction
- english fiction
- feminism
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, women
- modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- prostituierte
- prostitutes
- roman
- social conditions
- text
- translations from arabic
- translations into english
- women
- women prisoners