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Little is known of what life is like for contemporary Arab women living in the Middle East. One of the few literary voices speaking out from that still-closed society is Hanan al-Shaykh. Her first novel, The Story of Zahra, was banned in several Middle Eastern countries because of its explicit expression of female sexuality and sensuality.
Now, available for the first time in the United States, is her newest novel, Women of Sand and Myrrh. In economical, yet elegant prose-reminiscent of Margaret Drabble's and Margaret Atwood's - she tells the story of four women, living in an un- named desert state, who are struggling to cope in a society where they are treated to every luxury but freedom.
Al-Shaykh lays bare the unusual and highly charged relations that necessarily exist in a state that denies women their humanity, and she does so in a lyrical, feeling language whose impact is all the greater for its lack of polemic.
Now, available for the first time in the United States, is her newest novel, Women of Sand and Myrrh. In economical, yet elegant prose-reminiscent of Margaret Drabble's and Margaret Atwood's - she tells the story of four women, living in an un- named desert state, who are struggling to cope in a society where they are treated to every luxury but freedom.
Al-Shaykh lays bare the unusual and highly charged relations that necessarily exist in a state that denies women their humanity, and she does so in a lyrical, feeling language whose impact is all the greater for its lack of polemic.