Women of Sand and Myrrh

A powerful and moving novel, by the Arab world's leading woman novelist, about four women coping with the insular, oppressive society of an unnamed desert state.

Author: Hanan Al-Shaykh
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 07/01/1992
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.20w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9780385423588
ISBN10: 0385423586
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage

About the Author
Hanan al-Shaykh, an award-winning journalist, novelist, and playwright, is the author of the short story collection I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops; the novels One Thousand and One Nights, The Story of Zahra, Women of Sand and Myrrh, Beirut Blues, and Only in London; and a memoir about her mother, The Locust and the Bird. She was raised in Beirut, educated in Cairo, and lives in London.