Zahra’s mother uses her as a cover for her meetings with a lover; Zahra’s strict father mistreats her for being complicit in her mother’s affair. Fleeing from Beirut in search of solace, Zahra stays with her uncle in West Africa—and then uses marriage as another kind of escape. Back in Beirut, love finally comes to her, but with terrible consequences. Banned in several Middle Eastern countries since its original publication, The Story of Zahra is an intoxicating, provocative story of a young woman’s coming of age in a city torn apart by war.
- ISBN10 0704325462
- ISBN13 9780704325463
- Publish Date 1 April 1986
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 10 July 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Quartet Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English