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The golden chariot /
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 pa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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Cairo, Egypt ; New York :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2008, ©1995.
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| Colección: | Modern Arabic literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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, |
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| Notas: | 1st English ed. published in 1995 by Garnet Pub. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (193 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781617974298 1617974293 1306504015 9781306504010 9781617971938 1617971936 |