Naphtalene

"This first novel by an Iraqi woman to be published in English in the United States is a hallucinatory incantation?an ode to a city?(with) its private courtyards and public baths where the women in Hudas life rage and pray and love and scream."-"Ms. Magazine"
Now in paperback, "Naphtalene" captures a fierce and defiant young girl as she struggles to form her identity in 1950s Baghdad amid a world of unfulfilled women and family tragedies.
Iraqi exile Alia Mamdouh is a journalist, essayist, and novelist living in Paris who received the Naguib Mahfouz Prize for Literature in 2004.

Product details

• Authors: Helene Cixous, Alia Mamdouh
• Assisted by: Peter Theroux (Translation)
• Publisher: The Feminist Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2006
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 213 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 296 g
• Series: Women Writing the Middle East
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature