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The Open Door: A Novel
Latifa Al-Zayyat
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Description for The Open Door: A Novel
Paperback. The Open Door is "not only a great novel, but a literary landmark that shaped our consciousness."-Abdel Moneim Tallima Translator(s): Booth, Marilyn. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FHP; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 205 x 30. Weight in Grams: 362.
The Open Door is a landmark of women's writing in Arabic. Published in 1960, it was very bold for its time in exploring a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of sexual and political age, in the context of the Egyptian nationalist movement preceding the 1952 revolution. The novel traces the pressures on young women and young men of that time and class as they seek to free themselves of family control and social expectations. Young Layla and her brother become involved in the student activism of the 1940s and early 1950s and in the popular resistance to continued imperialist rule; the ... Read more
The Open Door is a landmark of women's writing in Arabic. Published in 1960, it was very bold for its time in exploring a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of sexual and political age, in the context of the Egyptian nationalist movement preceding the 1952 revolution. The novel traces the pressures on young women and young men of that time and class as they seek to free themselves of family control and social expectations. Young Layla and her brother become involved in the student activism of the 1940s and early 1950s and in the popular resistance to continued imperialist rule; the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
362g
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774168277
SKU
V9789774168277
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About Latifa Al-Zayyat
Latifa al-Zayyat (1923-96) struggled all her life to uphold just causes-national integrity, the welfare of the poor, human rights, freedom of expression, and the rejection of all forms of imperialist hegemony. As a professor of English literature at Ain Shams University, her critical output was no less prolific than her creative writing, but the creative, academic, and political strands of ... Read more
Reviews for The Open Door: A Novel
Absorbing ... Superbly translated ... Arguably the best modern [Egyptian] novel not written by Nobel laureate Mahfouz.
Kirkus Reviews Recommended.
Choice Latifa al-Zayyat greatly helped all of us Egyptian writers in our early writing careers.
Naguib Mahfouz A pioneering work on many levels.
Al Jadid A great anticolonialist work in a feminist key.
Ferial Ghazoul Not only a great novel, ... Read more
Kirkus Reviews Recommended.
Choice Latifa al-Zayyat greatly helped all of us Egyptian writers in our early writing careers.
Naguib Mahfouz A pioneering work on many levels.
Al Jadid A great anticolonialist work in a feminist key.
Ferial Ghazoul Not only a great novel, ... Read more