Women of sand and myrrh
By: Hanan al-Shaykh ; translated by Catherine Cobham.
Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed.
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Women -- Middle East -- Fiction.; Middle East -- Fiction.
Description: Little is known of what life is like for contemporary Arab women living in the Middle East. One of the few literary voices speaking out from that still closed society is Hanan al-Shaykh, whose novel The Story of Zahra was banned in most Arab countries. Now available for the first time in the U.S. is her newest novel, a story of four women treated to every luxury but freedom.
Notes: Originally published: Quartet Books, 1989.