Description
| Product ID: | 9780804008372 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Modern African Writing |
| Title: | From Sleep Unbound |
| Authors: | Author: Andree Chedid |
| Page Count: | 158 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating From Sleep Unbound portrays the life of Samya, an Egyptian woman who is taken at age 15 from her Catholic boarding school and forced into a loveless and humiliating marriage. Eventually sundered from every human attachment, Samya lapses into despair and despondence, and finally an emotionally caused paralysis. From Sleep Unbound portrays the life of Samya, an Egyptian woman who is taken at age 15 from her Catholic boarding school and forced into a loveless and humiliating marriage. Eventually sundered from every human attachment, Samya lapses into despair and despondence, and finally an emotionally caused paralysis. But when she shakes off the torpor of sleep, the sleep of avoidance, she awakens to action with the explosive energy of one who has been reborn. |
| Imprint Name: | Swallow Press |
| Publisher Name: | Ohio University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1983-09-30 |
