# Woman at Point Zero

by Nawal El Saadawi, Egypt, 1975

From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells of her life from village childhood to city prostitute. Society's retribution for her act of defiance - death - she welcomes as the only way she can finally be free.

ISBN: 9780862325176

## See also

- [Nawal El Saadawi](https://africantales.net/authors/nawal-el-saadawi)
- [More from Egypt](https://africantales.net/countries/EGY)
- [Literary Fiction](https://africantales.net/genres/literary-fiction)
- [The 1970s](https://africantales.net/decades/1970s)

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