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All of us are prostitutes. We take money for doing things we don’t really want to do to please society. A vanishingly small number of us have the courage of the protagonist of this novel: To face this ugly fact head-on, and find a way to use that very ugliness to free ourselves of our slavery.
This book flays away the self-delusion of society. Through the life of a young Egyptian woman born into poverty it exposes the hypocrisies and oppressions that surround humans constantly. Since this work c ...more
This book flays away the self-delusion of society. Through the life of a young Egyptian woman born into poverty it exposes the hypocrisies and oppressions that surround humans constantly. Since this work c ...more
Jul 14, 2018
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Updated review, 2020 reread: It often surprises me how differently my reaction is to a book when I read it again. Two years ago I found this one too depressing and was glad to leave it behind. But this time I got so much more from it.
It is a short book. Biographical fiction or creative non-fiction? Not really sure how to classify it, but it is powerful either way. Published in 1975, the author had lost her jobs as Director of Health Education and as Editor-in-Chief of Health magazine after she p ...more
It is a short book. Biographical fiction or creative non-fiction? Not really sure how to classify it, but it is powerful either way. Published in 1975, the author had lost her jobs as Director of Health Education and as Editor-in-Chief of Health magazine after she p ...more
“This novel, or rather creative non-fiction, takes the reader into the cell of a woman the night before her execution.”
“She is an orphan who was passed from one abusive guardian to another, and her tale shows how trust is tested and finally erodes, leaving behind only fear and alienation.”
I was blown away after reading the introductory comments of the book, about the author section, the foreword by Miriam Cooke and the preface, I was not disappointed in my journey. The author, a psychiatrist, tu ...more
“She is an orphan who was passed from one abusive guardian to another, and her tale shows how trust is tested and finally erodes, leaving behind only fear and alienation.”
I was blown away after reading the introductory comments of the book, about the author section, the foreword by Miriam Cooke and the preface, I was not disappointed in my journey. The author, a psychiatrist, tu ...more
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this further radicalized me
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