Pillars of Salt
A Novel
by Fadia Faqir
230 pages· 1997· ISBN 9781566562539
About
A novel on the lot of Arab women. Set in Jordan in the 1940s, the protagonists are two women in a mental hospital who exchange stories. One is a mother of eight who was repudiated by her husband so he could marry a younger woman. By a Jordanian writing in English, author of Nisanit.
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