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Nojoum, an old woman who has lost her sight, is questioned by her granddaughter about her past. From the first pages the two are tied by a shared trauma, which turns out to be the March 2015 terrorist attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis, where they had gone as visitors. In its aftermath Nojoum, unable to cry, burns with rage and a longing for revenge. Through her story the novel retraces the lives of five generations of Tunisian women, setting the gains of women's emancipation against the backlash of political Islam in its most extreme form, a terrorism rooted in hatred of women, while finding its hope above all in women themselves.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

222 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Tunisia

First published

2021 by Des femmes-Antoinette Fouque

Author's age

76 when first published

ISBN

9782721009012 (original)