Woman at point zero

Pages: 158
Published: 1983
Language: English

From her prison cell, awaiting execution, Firdaus recounts the story of her life. She details her journey from a rural childhood to becoming a prostitute in Cairo, driven by circumstances beyond her control. Facing society's ultimate punishment for a defiant act, she finds a strange sense of liberation in her impending death.

Prose complexity: 7/10

Dark Emotional Reflective Philosophical

Morally Grey Revenge

Literary Fiction Society

Nawal El Saadawi

Egyptian feminist writer, physician, psychiatrist and activist. She earned her MD from Cairo University in 1955 and an MPH from Columbia University in 1966, working as a physician and later as director-general of health education within Egypt's ministry of health until her 1972 dismissal over her book Women and Sex. In 1982 she founded the Arab Women's Solidarity Association, and in 1981 she was imprisoned for two months under President Anwar Sadat for her writing and activism, during which she...