My Name is Zayzafoune

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  • Language : Arabic
  • Subject : Novels
  • Author : Sausan Jamil Hasan
  • ISBN : 9789776765450
  • Year : 2022

The novel explores Arab moral double standards which make the individual, women in particular, wear a false face and live as spectators of their own lives rather than autonomous players in them. The two names of the heroine of the novel (Jahida/Zayzafoune) serve to highlight these double standards. After a watershed moment in her life when she faints, at the age of sixty Zayzafoune realises that life can be imagined in a way entirely different to how she has lived it all these years.  Longlisted for the 2023 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).

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Book Details

Title My Name is Zayzafoune
Language Arabic
Subject Novels
Author
ISBN 9789776765450
Year
Native Title اسمي زيزفون
Binding Paperback
Edition 1st Edition
Pages 295
Native Author Name سوسن جميل حسن
Size 22 cm

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