The Circling Song

by Nawal El Saadawi, Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Introduction)

Overview

Hamida and Hamido are twins, grown from a single embryo inside one womb. Violently parted, they search the city in the darkening circles of a dream, only to find, lose and find each other, each time as if it were the first. Their jourbaney - terrifying and exact - leads to an unbroken cycle of corruption and brutality,

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848132252
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/09/2009
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Nawal El Saadawi is a renowned Egyptian writer, novelist, and activist. She has published more than forty books, which have been translated into more than thirty languages.

Editorial Reviews

"To read this book is like looking into a kaleidoscope; as each new element in the story is added, so a new configuration is formed." -- Independent

"Nawal El Saadawi's technique is impressive: at once precise, controlled and hypnotic, even in translation. The style and meaning of the book are one. A song with no beginning and no end, the author tells its universal story." -- Everywoman

"This novel is a powerful example of the kind of anger and desperation to which Arab women writers are beginning to give vent." -- Choice

"Nawal El Saadawi is a legend in her own time. This is an ambitious work indeed." -- American Book Review

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