Title: Woman at point zero
First published: 1983
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.
Subjects: Arabic fiction, Translations into English, Translations from Arabic, Feminism, Fiction, Social conditions, Prostitutes, English fiction, Women prisoners, Women, Egypt, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, women, Prostituierte, Roman, Text, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Places: Cairo, Egypt
LC classification: PJ7862.A3 W6 1983