بحجم حبة عنب

In July 2012, during Ramadan, a tumor the size of a grape is found in the brain of Ziad, fifteen, the narrator's youngest son. His treatment begins at the International Medical Center in Cairo, the hospital where a judge has just had Hosni Mubarak moved. Talking to her son in silence, the mother goes back over her life since the early 1970s: a girlhood in Upper Egypt, a mother married to a man twenty years older, first loves, a cold marriage, depression. She comes to feel that nothing she lived was right, with her family, her husband, her children or herself. Hers is the story of a woman crushed in a male-dominated society who finds the strength to face herself and others and win back her own worth.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

384 pages in the original

First published

2014 by al-Hadara lil-Nashr

Author's age

46 when first published