God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels

About this book

Three classic novels by renowned feminist writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi. In God Dies by the Nile, a peasant family is torn apart by a village mayor and his lackeys in Saadawi's dark parable of poverty, female exploitation, injustice, and religious hypocrisy in rural Egypt. In Searching, the disappearance of her lover causes Fouda to question everything. Circling Song is a hypnotic meditation on gender, class, and state violence, told through the story of two mysterious twins.