Women of Algiers in Their Apartment

by Assia Djebar

Book Overview

The cloth edition of Assia Djebar's Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, her first work to be published in English, was named by the American Literary Translators Association as an ALTA Outstanding Translation of the Year. Now available in paperback, this collection of three long stories, three short ones, and a theoretical postface by one of North Africa's leading writers depicts the plight of urban Algerian women who have thrown off the shackles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813918804
• ISBN13: 9780813918808
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"