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Walking through Fire

By Nawal El Saadawi

Walking through Fire

By Nawal El Saadawi

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'Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years.' Nawal El Saadawi is one of the greatest writers to come out of the Arab world. Born in a small Egyptian village in 1931, her life and writings have shown an extraordinary strength of character and a unique ability to create new worlds in the fight against oppression. Saadawi has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppression imposed on women by gender and class. Still, she continues to write. In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi painted a beautifully textured portrait of the childhood that moulded her into a novelist and fearless campaigner for freedom and the rights of women. Walking through Fire takes up the story of her extraordinary life. We read about her as a rural doctor, trying to help a young girl escape from a terrible fate imposed on her by a brutal male tyranny. We learn about her activism for female empowerment and the authorities that try to obstruct her. We travel with her into exile after her name is put on a fundamentalist death list. We witness her three marriages, each offering in their way love, companionship and shared struggle. And we gain an unprecedented insight into this most wonderful of creative minds.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
3
Number of Pages:
304
Release Date:
2018-05-15
Publication Date:
2018-05-15
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1786993104
ISBN13:
9781786993106
Weight:
289 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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