Status
Checked out
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Publication
Heinemann (1987), Paperback, 126 pages
Description
This collection of short stories admits the reader into a hidden private world, regulated by the call of the mosque. The book provides accounts of death, the lives of women in purdah and the frustrations of everyday life.
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LibraryThing member REINADECOPIAYPEGA
Unusual very short stories. The author and I are at logger heads with regard to the treatment of women in North Africa and the Middle East. She wants no major changes to how their religion is followed and practiced, agrees that the man is 'the boss' of the house, she does what is expected of her
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including all rituals and believes of Islam, yet the only change she wanted to see was that men treat women more kindly as she claims it is required in the Koran. So she is not a feminist nor does she want to upset any apple carts. Her brand of pro-woman/feminist ideology does not even begin to scratch the surface.Meh
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Physical description
126 p.; 7.77 inches
ISBN
0435909126 / 9780435909123
Local notes
fiction