Women in the City of the Dead
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A01=Helen Watson
Author_Helen Watson
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Category=JHM
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Product details
- ISBN 9781850651093
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 Feb 1992
- Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The City of the Dead is a vast cemetery close to the centre of Cairo which has become a permanent home for thousands of migrants from the countryside. For many of the women, though still living in poverty, migration has brought a taste of freedom, as the exclusively female gatherings which form the setting for this book clearly show. The author has spent long periods inside this environment, where autobiographical and fictional story-telling is a routine pastime. She transcribes the stories and introduces the tellers and their society.
