by Nawal El Saadawi · MR · tapa dura · ISBN 9788427023888
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«La mujer que buscaba» is the contemporary fiction novel by Nawal El Saadawi, published by Martínez Roca in hardcover (160 pages, in Spanish).
Fouada is a chemist who lives in Cairo with her mother and is in a relationship with Farid. When he fails to show up for their weekly date, she falls apart and roams the city looking for him. The novel interweaves that search with reflections on love, life and transcendence, and portrays the oppression suffered by women in a traditional society.
This edition, in the Alcor collection, was published in 1998. The Goodreads record dates the original to 1991.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in Arab women writers and stories about the female condition.
Nawal El Saadawi was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She wrote numerous books on the subject of women in Islam, focusing on the concerns of women in the Global South pertaining to sexuality, patriarchy, social class, and colonialism.
