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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Nawal El SaadawiPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Edition: NIP ISBN: 9780755651641ISBN 10: 0755651642 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 27 June 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsForeword by Nadia Wassef 1. The Threat 2. Spreading My Wings 3. The Village Doctor 4. The Tripartite Invasion 5. What is Suppressed Always Comes Back 6. Love and Despair 7. My Mother has no Place in Paradise 8. Moments that Belong Nowhere 9. The Death Threat 10. Beyond Consciousness 11. The Photograph 12. The Scalpel and the Law 13. The Defeat 14. Searching for Love 15. An Aborted Revolution 16. The Dream of FlyingReviewsThe accumulated facts of El Saadawi’s life sound grim, but this is not the experience of reading her memoir, which is stormy and vivid, characterized by great intellectual and emotional restlessness. Her story [has] a pungency and intimacy that more varnished memoirs often lack. And what shines through it all is her indomitability and self-belief... Stormy and vivid, characterized by great intellectual and emotional restlessness ... It seems certain that without powerful self-belief and faith in her own instincts, she would not have survived * Times Literary Supplement * Her honesty, strength, courage, and accomplishments are admirable and inspiring, Library Journal El Saadawi's poetic prose and searing details keep the pages alive with stories of triumph, dissent, death and disappointment * San Francisco Chronicle * A moving repudiation of those who have made Egypt's history in the last century * Washington Post Book World * I think her life has been one long death threat. At a time when nobody else was talking, she spoke the unspeakable * Margaret Atwood * This is what great art does. It closes the great chasms between us. With words, Saadawi peels away the artifice to reveal the beating heart beneath the surface. We come away from this book as we do from all her others, amazed at her cool courage, profound insight, and deep passion. Without her brave work an entire country would not be fully known * Rebecca Walker * Author InformationNawal El Saadawi was born in a village outside Cairo, Egypt, in 1931. A trained medical doctor, she wrote landmark works on the oppression of Arab women including Woman at Point Zero (1973), God Dies by the Nile (1976) and The Hidden Face of Eve (1977). After being imprisoned by Anwar Sadat’s government for criticising the regime, she founded the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association in 1982, before being forced into exile in later life due to death threats by religious extremists. She returned to Egypt in 1996, running for president in 2005 until government persecution forced her to withdraw. Saadawi died in Egypt in 2021. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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