A Bed for the King's Daughter

by Shahla Ujayli

Book Overview

A groundbreaking collection of experimental short fiction by award-winning Syrian author and Booker International Prize for Arabic Fiction nominee Shahla Ujayli, A Bed for the King's Daughter uses surrealism and irony to examine such themes as women's agency, the decline of collective life and imagination under modernity, and the effects of social and political corruption on daily life. In "The Memoir of Cinderella's Shoes," Cinderella uses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477322280
• ISBN13: 9781477322284
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies Ut-Austin
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"