Dar el Addab
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Rated 5 starsIt's also about the larger issue of the haves exploiting the have-nots
The story takes place in the early 1970s. The author, Dr. Saadawi is a psychiatrist and consultant for the women's prison. A young woman named Firdaus is scheduled to be executed for fatally stabbing her pimp. Thus far Firdaus has refused to speak to anyone, but Dr. Saadawi breaks through and thus a novel is born. Firdaus is born to a poor family. Her parents die and she goes to live with her perverted uncle. He gets married...
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Rated 5 starsShould be more widely known
Women at Point Zero is a novel based on an actual woman that Al Saadawi met in a women's prison in Cairo. Firdaus, a woman on death row for killing a pimp, tells the story of her life. Firdaus begins life as a lower-class rural peasant, ending up as a high-priced prostitute with no illusions about her place in society. Awesome book.
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Rated 5 starsa book for all women
I disagree with other reviewers who write that this book is an eye-opener to the terrible lives of Muslim women, or oppressed women in other places. This is absolutely true--it does give the reader a glimpse into the limited and terrifying lives of some Egyptian women; however, the book is much broader in scope than this aspect. This is a book for all women everywhere. The specifics of the story involve an Egyptian woman who...
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Rated 5 starsA Brave Book
If you want to read about a strong, non-Anglo, feminist perspective, read Ms. Saadawi's work. After reading this book about battered souls and battered women, I was compelled to volunteer at a domestic violence center. This book doesn't just encourage you to read this story, and stew at home; it makes you want to act out and do something to prevent violence in any form.
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Rated 5 starsStriking.
The treatment is savage and exact--the only manner of writing that could do justice to the material. Because of this, the novel is a quick read, but it is not a light one. I haven't read a prose style this beautiful since Les Guerilles (Wittig) or Carver's "A Small, Good Thing." Combined with this, her understanding of the neurotic (and its origins) outpaces Margaret Atwood by leagues. Sadat imprisoned her for her writings,...
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