Searching
By: Nawal El Saadawi ; translated by Shirley Eber.
Contributors: Eber, Shirley.
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: London; Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
Subjects: Egypt -- Fiction.
Description: Fouada meets Farid, her lover, every Tuesday in a restaurant overlooking the Nile. But this week their usual table is deserted. She calls his home, but the shrilling of the telephone echoes in an empty room. Farid has disappeared. As she searches for him, Fouada becomes tormented by questions. She is a trained research chemist, but works in a dead-end ministry job. Convinced that she has something to give to the world, she cannot find it. What is it? Why does she search? Searching expresses the poignancy of loss and doubt with the hypnotic intensity of a remembered dream. -- Publisher description.