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From Sleep Unbound portrays the life of Samya, an Egyptian woman who is taken at age 15 from her Catholic boarding school and forced into a loveless and humiliating marriage. Eventually sundered from every human attachment, Samya lapses into despair and despondence, and finally an emotionally caused paralysis.

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“Much of this delicately composed, elegant novel is a gentle and simple story of a woman searching for herself in a world of callous, unimaginative male supremacy…. The writing, disclosing bitter, painful truths, is deceptively lyrical.” * The Times *
“This is a lyrical novel that portrays the life of an Egyptian woman who is forced to accept a loveless and humiliating marriage.” * The Women’s Review of Books *
“Woman may be compared to a very deep body of water; one can never predict the power of the undertow.”

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      Publisher: Ohio University Press
      Publication Date: 30/09/1983
      ISBN13: 9780804008372, 978-0804008372
      ISBN10: 080400837X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      From Sleep Unbound portrays the life of Samya, an Egyptian woman who is taken at age 15 from her Catholic boarding school and forced into a loveless and humiliating marriage. Eventually sundered from every human attachment, Samya lapses into despair and despondence, and finally an emotionally caused paralysis.

      Trade Review
      “Much of this delicately composed, elegant novel is a gentle and simple story of a woman searching for herself in a world of callous, unimaginative male supremacy…. The writing, disclosing bitter, painful truths, is deceptively lyrical.” * The Times *
      “This is a lyrical novel that portrays the life of an Egyptian woman who is forced to accept a loveless and humiliating marriage.” * The Women’s Review of Books *
      “Woman may be compared to a very deep body of water; one can never predict the power of the undertow.”

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