So Vast the Prison
A Novel
Written by Assia Djebar
Translated by Betsy Wing
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $16.95
So Vast the Prison is the double-threaded story of a modern, educated Algerian woman existing in a man’s society, and, not surprisingly, living a life of contradictions. Djebar, too, tackles cross-cultural issues just by writing in French of an Arab society (the actual act of writing contrasting with the strong oral...
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