All the Women Inside Me

Sahar feels loneliness, loss and emptiness inside her family. She wants to be the opposite of her mother, yet when she marries Sami she finds herself walking the same path and caught in the same trap. Finding no refuge in married life, she invents in her mind another person who completes her emotionally and intellectually, a phantom or illusion to lighten the weight of her solitude, and loses herself in ideal dreams of love and tenderness that her home denies her. Her story, told in her own voice, stands for that of many women in her part of the world who are expected to bend to men's will, and for the attempt to get out of the tunnel and discover oneself.

AI-generated summary

About the book

Form

Novel

Length

199 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Lebanon

First published

2012 by Arab Scientific Publishers

Author's age

27 when first published

ISBN

9786140104532 (original)

9781623718862 (Interlink Books, United States)

More

Wikidata