Farida

Kirjan Farida (2024) on kirjoittanut Monia Mazigh. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 272 sivua ja se on nidottu.

Translated from French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott. Farida, a young woman in Tunis, is passionate about reading and loves the French language. But she is compelled to marry Kamel, a brute of a man, who drinks, keeps mistresses, and beats her when she talks back. But she is defiant, and takes comfort from her secret reading. The country is a French colony and male-dominated. Finally after ten years she is granted a divorce by the courts and lives with her son Tewfiq. A smoking, independent-minded divorcee, she sees the country attain its freedom from the French and its arrival into modern times; the growth of her son into a young public servant; and her granddaughter Leila mature into an independent, educated young woman. This is a novel of modern Tunisia told through the lives of its women.