
Woman at Point Zero
1975 · literary fiction · adult
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Set in 1 place · 1 primarySense of Place
5/5
Description · Open Library (CC0)
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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