114 pages
English language
Published 2007 by Zed.
Woman at point zero
2 stars
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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
- Prostitutes -- Egypt -- Fiction.
- Egypt -- Social conditions -- Fiction.