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The golden chariot / by Salwa Bakr ; translated by Dinah Manisty.
Author
Bakr, Salwá
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بكر، سلوى
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Uniform title
ʻArabah al-dhahabīyah lā taṣʻad ilá al-samāʼ.
English
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العربة الذهبية لا تصعد إلى السماء
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st English edition.
Published/Created
Reading, UK : Garnet, ©1995.
Description
xi, 195 p. ; 21 cm.
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Notes
Firestone Library - Near East Collections
PJ7816.A466 A8313 1995
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Subject(s)
Women
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Egypt
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Social conditions
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20th century
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Fiction
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Women
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Violence against
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Egypt
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20th century
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Fiction
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Female offenders
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Egypt
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20th century
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Fiction
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Women prisoners
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Egypt
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20th century
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Fiction
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Family violence
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Egypt
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20th century
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Fiction
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Prisoners
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Egypt
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20th century
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Fiction
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Rape
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Fiction
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Murder
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Fiction
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Arabic fiction
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Egypt
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20th century
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Translations into English
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English fiction
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Translations from Arabic
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Translator
Manisty, Dinah
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Fiction
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Series
Arab women writers
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Summary note
From her cell in a women's prison, Aziza decides to create a golden chariot to take her to heaven, where her wishes and dreams can be fulfilled. As she muses on who to take with her, she tells the life stories of her fellow prisoners and decides in her heart which ones deserve a free ride to paradise. Aziza's cruelly frank comments about her friends and their various crimes - including murder, theft, and drug-dealing - weave these tales together into a contemporary Arabian Nights. Salwa Bakr takes a wry and cynical look at how women from widely differing backgrounds, some innocent and some guilty, come together in a single prison ward. Salwa Bakr's writing depicts life at the grassroots of Egypt's culture, admiring its resilience in the face of poverty and inequality. With a strong distrust of imported kitsch, western consumerism is contrasted with the indigenous culture.
Notes
Translation of: ʻArabah al-dhahabīyah lā taṣʻad ilá al-samāʾ.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (page x).
ISBN
1859640222 ((pbk.))
9781859640227 ((pbk.))
LCCN
95219550
OCLC
32851159
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