Forbidden vision
By: Nina Bouraoui ; translated by K. Melissa Marcus.
Publisher: Station Hill; Distributed by Talman Co.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Barrytown, N.Y; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Description: A novel on the oppression of women in Algeria. It features a family whose tyrannical father beats a daughter for menstruating, another daughter has to bandage her breasts to keep them small, and the mother squats over smoke in the hope of bearing a son. The author is an Algerian born in France.