Translated by Sherif Hetata. From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells of her life from village childhood to city prostitute. Society's retribution for her act of defiance - death - she welcomes as the only way she can finally be free.

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Published: 1983 or 2008. First published in Arabic in 1975

No. pages: 108

ISBN: 9780862321109

Condition: FAIR - softcover - 110g