Middle East Literature In Translation
2 total works
Set in late 19th and 20th-century Egypt, this novel offers a window on the everyday lives of cloistered women and the way they interact with each other and with male relatives, spouses and other men.
First published in 1940 and now translated into English, this work comprises three novellas of love and death in the Egyptian countryside. The stories offer the reader an insight into the intimate geographical and psychological spaces of the different Egyptian classes and upbringings.