Woman at point zero
/ Nawal El Saadawi ; translated by Sherif Hetata
- London : Zed Books , 1983.
- iv, 106 p. ; 20 cm.
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.