One of the best known writers of the Arab world weaves the story of the society that the women of her country live in, Egypt. To take away some of the bitterneá, she polishes the tale with a fine sense of humor using parody in a style related to Quevado, filling it with a dose of tenderneá that only a woman is capable of using. Aziza, the protagonist narrates for us her own story as well as those of various women in the prison of Cairo. Some painfully innocent and others guilty, that is if you can talk of guilty women in a Third World society dominated, more than any other place, by men.
