Specters

by Radwa Ashour and رضوى عاشور

Book Overview

Winner of the Cairo International Book Fair Prize. Specters tells the story of Radwa and Shagar, two women born the same day. The narrative alternates between their childhoods, their work lives (one a professor of literature and the other of history), their married and unmarried lives, and their respective books. With her novel's structure, Ashour pays tribute to the Arab qareen (double or companion, and sometimes demon) and the ancient Egyptian ka...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566568323
• ISBN13: 9781566568326
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Interlink Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.9"