num_pages: 108
description: 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.
language: English
title: Woman at Point Zero
titlecomplete: Woman at Point Zero
genres: Classics, Feminism, African Literature, Novels, Egypt, Africa, School, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Womens
ratings_count: 19504
places: North Africa, Cairo, Egypt, Middle East
publisher: Zed Books