Publication

1985 - US distributor, Biblio Distribution Center, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

34,500 words, Guess

Page Count

138 pages

Identifiers

and 8 more
  • ISBN-139780862322946
  • Goodreads446408', '676831
  • LibraryThing335935
  • Library of Congress Control Number86174796
  • OCLC Control Number12583064
  • OCLC Control Number14213038
  • Better World Books9780862322953
  • Open LibraryOL2301420M

Classifications

  • DDC892/.736
  • LCCPJ7862.A3 M313 1985

Description

Kafr El Teen is a beautiful, sleepy village on the banks of the Nile. Yet at its heart it is tyrannical and corrupt. The Mayor, Sheikh Hamzawi of the mosque, and the Chief of the Village Guard are obsessed by wealth and use and abuse the women of the village, taking them as slaves, marrying them and beating them. Resistance, it seems, is futile. Zakeya, an ordinary villager, works in the fields by the Nile and watches the world, squatting in the dusty entrance to her house, quietly accepting her fate. It is only when her nieces fall prey to the Mayor that Zakeya becomes enraged by the injustice of her society and possessed by demons. Where is the loving and peaceful God in whom Zakeya believes?

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