| Specters Contributor(s): Ashour, Radwa (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566568323 ISBN-13: 9781566568326 Publisher: Interlink Books OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: 892.736 |
| LCCN: 2010024958 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.75 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 (the spirit that is born with and accompanies an individual through life and beyond). |