At a mere 114 pages, the book is a quick, but certainly not a light, or easy read. Written by radical feminist and award-winning author Nawal El Saadawi, the novel contains excruciatingly graphic, brutally honest and truly haunting tales of patriarchal society and its darkest realities. As we strive to empower women, novels like Woman at Point Zeroserve to remind us how far we’ve come, and why we must continue our path to gender equality.īased on a true story and often described as a semi-fiction or fictionalized memoir, the novel tells the story of Firdaus, a woman on death row for murdering her pimp in Egypt during the 1970s. Reading for those who wish to understand why women still suffer at the hands of men and societyįirst published in English in 1983, Woman at Point Zero is arguably more relevant now than ever before.
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