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Two Women In One
Two Women In One | Nawal El Saadawi
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Bahiah Shaheen, an eighteen-year-old medical student and the daughter of a prominent Egyptian public official, finds the male students in her class coarse and alien. Her father, too, seems to belong to a race apart. Frustrated by her hard-working, well-behaved, middle-class public persona, her meeting with a stranger at a gallery one day sparks her journey of self-discovery and of the realisation that fulfilment in life is indeed possible.
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Emilymdxn
Two Women In One | Nawal El Saadawi
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My first book finished for #foodandlit 🙂🇪🇬

I loved this novel about a female medical student in Cairo and the difficulty she has living in the patriarchal world. The writing and translation were both incredible and this was short, emotional and incredibly evocative. Having said that, it was hard not to continually compare it to Woman At Point Zero which I did prefer.