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Forbidden vision

Nina Bouraoui

1995103 pagesabout 2 hours
1995
first published
  • 1995Station Hill · 103 pages · ENGISBN 9780882681771
  • 1998Barrytown Limited · 112 pages · ENGISBN 9781886449695

A novel on the oppression of women in Algeria. It features a family whose tyrannical father beats a daughter for menstruating, another daughter has to bandage her breasts to keep them small, and the mother squats over smoke in the hope of bearing a son. The author is an Algerian born in France.

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