num_pages: 256
description: Bodour a distinguished literary critic and university professor carries with her a dark secret. As a young university student she fell in love with a political activist and gave birth to an illegitimate daughter Zeina whom she abandoned on the streets of Cairo.Zeina grows up to become one of Egypt's most beloved entertainers despite being deprived of a name and a home. In contrast Bodour remains trapped in a loveless marriage pining for her daughter. In an attempt to find solace she turns to literature writing a fictionalized account of her life. But when the novel goes missing Bodour is forced on a journey of self discovery reliving and reshaping her past and her future.Will Bodour ever discover who stole the novel? Is there any hope of her being reunited with Zeina?Nawal El Saadawi is an internationally renowned Egyptian writer feminist and psychiatrist. Her works have been translated into more than thirty languages.
language: English
title: Zeina
publisher: Saqi Books