Book Size: 5.25" x 8"
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781566568326
Imprint: Interlink Books
Edition: 1
Translator: Barbara Romaine
Release date: 01/09/10
Category: LiteratureSpecters
By Radwa Ashour
$ 15Winner of the Cairo International Book Fair Prize
“A stimulating read… Pandora’s box-like it raises, explicitly and implicitly, the kinds of difficult questions that all writers at some point ask themselves: What does it mean to write? What is a novel? What is a life?” — Nur Elmessiri, Al Ahram Weekly
About this book
Specters tells the story of Radwa and Shagar, two women born the same day.
The narrative alternates between their childhoods, their work lives (one a professor of literature and the other of history), their married and unmarried lives, and their respective books. With her novel's structure, Ashour pays tribute to the Arab qareen (double or companion, and sometimes demon) and the ancient Egyptian ka (the spirit that is born with and accompanies an individual through life and beyond).
Brand: Radwa AshourAbout the author
Radwa Ashour (1946-2014) was a celebrated Egyptian feminist, activist, scholar, novelist, and professor of literature, whose work is considered part of the so-called Sixties generation. At the time of her premature death in the winter 2014, she had just published a memoir of her final years, including her engagement in the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Heavier than Radwa.
Ashour penned numerous works of fiction, with important historical, cultural, and political resonance and meaning. Among her most acclaimed works are her Granada Trilogy, Specters, and the Woman from Tantoura.
Ashour’s sharp political critiques, commitment to social justice, advocacy of equality for women, and untiring support for the liberation of Palestine are matched by a dedication to speaking for marginalized communities, particularly African Americans. She won many prizes and honors in her distinguished career, including the Cairo International Book Fair’s Book of the Year award in 1994 for the first volume of the Granada Trilogy.
Reviews
“A stimulating read… Pandora’s box-like it raises, explicitly and implicitly, the kinds of difficult questions that all writers at some point ask themselves: What does it mean to write? What is a novel? What is a life?” — Nur Elmessiri, Al Ahram Weekly
Additional information
| Author | Ashour, Radwa |
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| Edition | 1 |
| Inprint | Interlink Books |
| Pages | 256 |
| Type | PB |
| Translator | Romaine , Barbara |
| Release date | 01/09/10 |
| Author Home | Egypt |
| Format | 5.25" x 8" |
| Reviews | Winner of the Cairo International Book Fair Prize – "A stimulating read… Pandora's box-like it raises , explicitly and implicitly , the kinds of difficult questions that all writers at some point ask themselves: What does it mean to write? What is a novel? What is a life?" — Nur Elmessiri , Al Ahram Weekly |
| MainReview | Winner of the Cairo International Book Fair Prize – "A stimulating read… Pandora's box-like it raises, explicitly and implicitly, the kinds of difficult questions that all writers at some point ask themselves: What does it mean to write? What is a novel? What is a life?" — Nur Elmessiri, Al Ahram Weekly |
