num_pages: 280
description: A powerful and moving novel, by the Arab worlds  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: Feminism, Cultural, Lebanon, Realistic Fiction, Novels, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Book Club, Womens
ratings_count: 1221
publisher: Quartet