num_pages: 280
description: A powerful and moving novel, by the Arab world's leading woman novelist, about four women coping with the insular, oppressive society of an unnamed desert state.
language: English
title: Women of Sand and Myrrh
titlecomplete: Women of Sand and Myrrh
genres: Fiction, Cultural, Lebanon, Book Club, Womens, Literature, Feminism, Novels, Realistic Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1221
publisher: Allen & Unwin