The Story of Zahra: A Novel

The Story of Zahra: A Novel

by Hanan al-Shaykh
The Story of Zahra: A Novel

The Story of Zahra: A Novel

by Hanan al-Shaykh

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Overview

Zahra’s mother uses her as a cover for her meetings with a lover; Zahra’s strict father mistreats her for being complicit in her mother’s affair. Fleeing from Beirut in search of solace, Zahra stays with her uncle in West Africa—and then uses marriage as another kind of escape. Back in Beirut, love finally comes to her, but with terrible consequences. Banned in several Middle Eastern countries since its original publication, The Story of Zahra is an intoxicating, provocative story of a young woman’s coming of age in a city torn apart by war.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780385472067
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/15/1996
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 1,084,020
Product dimensions: 5.22(w) x 8.01(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

Hanan al-Shaykh, an award-winning journalist, novelist, and playwright, is the author of the short story collection I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops; the novels The Story of Zahra, Women of Sand and Myrrh, Beirut Blues, and Only in London; and a memoir about her mother, The Locust and the Bird. She was raised in Beirut, educated in Cairo, and lives in London.
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