Pillars of Salt
Subtitle: A Novel
By: Fadia Faqir.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Series: Emerging voices
Publisher: Interlink Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Psychiatric hospital patients -- Fiction.; Women patients -- Fiction.; Women -- Arab countries -- Fiction.; Jordan -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A novel on the lot of Arab women. Set in Jordan in the 1940s, the protagonists are two women in a mental hospital who exchange stories. One is a mother of eight who was repudiated by her husband so he could marry a younger woman. By a Jordanian writing in English, author of Nisanit.