Research Catalog

Title

The novel / by Nawal El Saadawi ; translated by Omnia Amin & Rick London.

Author

Saʻdāwī, Nawāl

Publication

Northampton, Mass. : Interlink Books, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Amīn, Umnīyah
• London, Rick

Description

236 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

""The novel caused tremendous outrage."" "So begins Nawal El Saadawi's tenth novel. And indeed, when the famous Egyptian psychiatrist and writer released The Novel in 2005, it was banned all over the Arab world. But the novel inside The Novel is by a young woman - a woman who is only 23 years old, who has "no family, no university degree, no national identity card," whose name does not appear on this "lists of prominent women writers." A woman, that is, whose biography is as unlike Saadawi's own as possible, as if she has stripped herself of all the effects of her own worldly existence to explore something earlier, more elemental, than the political work for which she is so well known." "In following the life of this young, unnamed, woman writer as it intersects with those of a famous writer named Rostum, his wife Carmen, and a poet called Miriam, El Saadawi gives us a deeply felt exploration of the nature of identity, of fame, of writing, and of freedom."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Interlink world fiction

Uniform Title

• Riwāyah. English
• Interlink world fiction

Alternative Title

Riwāyah.

Subject

Women authors > Fiction

Genre/Form

Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781566567329 (pbk.)
• 1566567327 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008015957

OCLC

• 223370079
• SCSB-12115359

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library