Description
Beautifully repackaged, volume two of the autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi, the Arab world's leading feminist.
About the Author
Nawal El Saadawi is an internationally renowned writer, novelist and fighter for women's rights both within Egypt and abroad. She holds honorary doctorates from, among others, the universities of York, Illinois at Chicago, St Andrews and Tromso as well as Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Her many prizes and awards include the Premi Internacional Catalunya in 2003, the Council of Europe North-South Prize in 2004, the Women of the Year Award (UK) in 2011, the Sean MacBride Peace Prize (Ireland) in 2012, and the French National Order of Merit in 2013. Her books have been translated into over forty languages worldwide. They are taught in universities across the world.
Reviews
The 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. * TLS *
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 *
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 *
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, BBC Imagine *
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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9781786993106
Author Nawal El Saadawi
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Zed Books Ltd
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 290g