Woman at point zero

By Nawal El Saadawi

Subjects: Text, Prostituierte, Translations into English, Women, Fiction, women, Egypt, fiction, Fiction, general, English fiction, Women prisoners, Translations from Arabic, Feminism, Roman, Fiction, Arabic fiction, Social conditions, Prostitutes

Description: 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.