Woman at point zero

Description:

From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells of her life from village childhood to city prostitute. Society's retribution for her act of defiance - death - she welcomes as the only way she can finally be free.

subjects: Arabic fiction,  Translations into English,  Translations from Arabic,  Feminism,  Fiction,  Social conditions,  Prostitutes,  English fiction,  Women prisoners,  Women,  Egypt, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Fiction, women,  Prostituierte,  Roman,  Text,  Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Places: Cairo,  Egypt