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Lang Matl
Author Mohaimeed,Yousef.

Uniform Title قارورة. English.
قارورة. إنجليزي.
Title Munira's bottle / Yousef Al-Mohaimeed ; translated by Anthony Calderbank.

Imprint Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status
 CCQ - Lusail Male Library  PJ7850.U4538 Q3713 2010    Available
Description 213 p. ; 21 cm.
Series Modern Arabic literature.
Modern Arabic literature.
Summary "In Riyadh, against Saddam's invasion of Kuwait and the first Gulf War, we learn the story of Munira--with the gorgeous eyes--and the unspeakable tragedy she suffers as her male nemesis wreaks revenge for an insult to his character and manhood. It is also the tale of many other women of Saudi Arabia who pass through the remand center where Munira works, victims and perpetrators of crimes, characters pained and tormented, trapped in cocoons of silence and fear. Munira records their stories on pieces of paper that she folds up and places in the mysterious bottle given to her long ago by her grandmother, a repository for the stories of the dead, that they might live again. This controversial novel looks at many of the issues that characterize the lives of women in modern Saudi society, including magic and envy, honor and revenge, and the strict moral code that dictates male-female interaction."-- Dust Jacket.
Language In English, translated from the Arabic.
Subject Women -- Saudi Arabia -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Saudi Arabia -- Fiction.
Families -- Saudi Arabia -- Fiction.
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849.
Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080.
Women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01176947.
Roman -- arabischer -- Saudi-Arabien -- Geschichte 2001 ff -- Text.
Saudi Arabia. (OCoLC)fst01210372.
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787.
Added Author Calderbank, Anthony.
ISBN 9789774163463
977416346X