At the age of 79, she is considered to be one of the few writers that grows more angry with age, rather than milder. Her most famous novel, woman at point zero was published in beirut in 1973. Her father is terribly abusive and deceitful, though every week at the mosque he pretends to be religiously devout. She has written many books on the subject of women in islam, paying particular attention to the practice of female genital mutilation in her society. In the long section in which firdaus explains her life so far, she is the narrator, and she is telling nawal her story. Read a plot overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter summary and analysis. Woman at point zero is the story of one arab woman, but it reads as if it is every womans life. Woman at point zero summary from litcharts the creators. The author of woman at point zero, saadawi is a writer and psychiatrist whose latest research involves interviewing female inmates in the.
From her jail cell, firdaus, condemned to kick the bucket for having executed a pimp in a cairo road, recounts her life from town youth to city prostitute. She holds honorary doctorates from, among others, the universities of york, illinois at chicago, st andrews and tromso as well as. Pdf woman at point zero download full full pdf ebook free. She used to conduct a study on the psychological effects of prison on female prisoners but she did not know that she will also be imprisoned herself.
Aug 15, 2007 her most famous novel, woman at point zero was published in beirut in 1973. Adobe digital editions this is a free app specially developed for ebooks. The story of firdaus, one of the greatest characters ever created in fiction. Firdaus spends her early childhood in a rural village. The timeline below shows where the symbol fingernails appears in woman at point zero. Pdf woman at point zero download full pdf book download. The times all the men i did get to know filled me with. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Spare rib scorching new internationalist the most influential feminist thinker in the arab world over the past halfcentury. Woman at point zero is a novel published in arabic in 1975. Publication date 1985 topics arabic fiction, arabic fiction, arabic fiction. Buy woman at point zero by nawal elsaadawi, sherif hetata from waterstones today. If you like 1 month unlimited audiobook listening 12.
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