The Tent

by Miral al-Tahawy

Book Overview

A journey inside the wounded hearts and minds of a group of Egyptian Bedouin women

The Tent is a beautifully written, powerful, and disturbing novel, featuring a host of women characters whose lives are subject to the will of a single, often absent, patriarch and his brutal, foul-mouthed mother. Told through the eyes of a young girl, the lives of the Bedouin and peasant women unfold, revealing the tragedy of the sonless...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774245423
• ISBN13: 9789774245428
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.8"