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Publication date 1980 Media type Print Published in english 1992 | 3.6/5 Goodreads Published in English 1992 Originally published 1980 Translator Marjolijn de Jager | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original title Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement Similar Fantasia - an Algerian cavalcade, Children of the New World, So vast the prison, A sister to Scheherazade, L' amour - la fantasia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment French: Femmes d'Alger dans leur Appartement is a 1980 novel by the Algerian writer Assia Djebar. It is a collection of short stories celebrating the strength and dignity of Algerian women of the past and the present. It interweaves the stories of the lives of three Muslim Algerian women. Assia Djebar's inspiration to write Femme d'Alger dans leur appartement came from Delacroix's painting The Women of Algiers.
Plot
A collection of short stories about the lives of pre-colonial, colonial, and postcolonial women various levels of the Algerian society. It is a piece about the compartmentalization of women in Algeria and the harems in which they are put.
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