The Novel (Interlink World Fiction) - Softcover

Nawal El Saadawi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566567327 ISBN 13: 9781566567329

Publisher: Interlink Books, 2007

Synopsis

So begins Nawal El Saadawi's tenth novel. And indeed, when the famous Egyptian psychiatrist and writer released The Novel in 2005, it was banned all over the Arab world. But the novel inside The Novel is by a young woman-a woman who is only 23 years old, who has no family, no university degree, no national identity card, whose name does not appear on the lists of prominent women writers. A woman, that is, whose biography is as unlike Saadawi's own as possible, as if she has stripped herself of all the effects of her own worldly existence to explore something earlier, more elemental, than the political work for which she is so well known. In following the life of this young, unnamed woman writer as it intersects with those of a famous writer named Rostum, his wife Carmen, and a poet called Miriam, El Saadawi gives us a deeply felt exploration of the nature of identity, of fame, of writing, and of freedom.

About this title

About the Author:

Nawal El Saadawi is the author of Woman at Point Zero, God Dies by the Nile, and The Hidden Face of Eve, and nearly forty other works of fiction, non-fiction, drama, and memoir, which have been translated into more than thirty languages. For over four decades, she has been Egypt's most prominent feminist activist; she has survived prison, death threats, and the government shutdown of her Arab Women's Solidarity Association and magazines she edited. She lived in exile for a number of years, and taught at and received honorary degrees from universities and colleges all over the world.

Review:

"More than any other woman, El Saadawi has come to embody the trials of Arab feminism."

About this edition

• Publisher: Interlink Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1566567327
• ISBN 13: 9781566567329
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256