Woman at Point Zero

Nawal El Saadawi

first published 1983 Zed Press, 1985

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.

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Woman at Point Zero hardcover · 2015 · Zed Books · 128 pages · 9781783605958
Woman at Point Zero paperback · 2015 · Zed Books · 128 pages · 9781783605941
Woman at point zero edition · 2007 · Zed · 114 pages · 9781842778722
Woman at point zero. edition · 1985 · Zed Press
Woman at Point Zero edition · 1983 · Zed Books · 106 pages

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