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Walking through Fire
- Author
- Nawal El Saadawi
- Narrator
- Nadia Albina
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 26 September 2024
- Run Time
- 10 hours 43 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In Walking through Fire, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world’s greatest writers, tells the story of the later years of a life which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. Covering her life in Nasser’s then Sadat’s and Mubarak’s Egypt, we learn about Saadawi’s experience of marriage and motherhood, and we travel with her into exile after her life was threatened by religious extremists. Filled with warmth as well as critical reflection, this book reveals the later years of a remarkable life dedicated to the fight for justice and equality.
Critics Review
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The accumulated facts of El Saadawi’s life sound grim, but this is not the experience of reading her memoir, which is stormy and vivid, characterized by great intellectual and emotional restlessness. Her story [has] a pungency and intimacy that more varnished memoirs often lack. And what shines through it all is her indomitability and self-belief... Stormy and vivid, characterized by great intellectual and emotional restlessness ... It seems certain that without powerful self-belief and faith in her own instincts, she would not have survived
Times Literary Supplement
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El Saadawi's poetic prose and searing details keep the pages alive with stories of triumph, dissent, death and disappointment
San Francisco Chronicle
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A moving repudiation of those who have made Egypt's history in the last century
Washington Post Book World
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I think her life has been one long death threat. At a time when nobody else was talking, she spoke the unspeakable
Margaret Atwood
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This is what great art does. It closes the great chasms between us. With words, Saadawi peels away the artifice to reveal the beating heart beneath the surface. We come away from this book as we do from all her others, amazed at her cool courage, profound insight, and deep passion. Without her brave work an entire country would not be fully known
Rebecca Walker
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Details
- Author
- Nawal El Saadawi
- Narrator
- Nadia Albina
- Duration
- 10 hours 43 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 September 2024
- ISBN
- 9781350529038
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Autobiography: writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Islam, Political activism / Political engagement
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Walking through Fire by Nawal El Saadawi, read by Nadia Albina In Walking through Fire, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world’s greatest writers, tells the story of the later years of a life which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. Covering her life in Nasser’s then Sadat’s and Mubarak’s Egypt, we learn about Saadawi’s experience of marriage and motherhood, and we travel with her into exile after her life was threatened by religious extremists. Filled with warmth as well as critical reflection, this book reveals the later years of a remarkable life dedicated to the fight for justice and equality.
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