{"product_id":"farida-9781774151747","title":"Farida","description":"\u003cp\u003eTranslated from French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFarida, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781774151747\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272","brand":"Monia Mazigh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44792523063477,"sku":"9781774151747","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9dbe2dd2-7ce5-4ab4-9edd-f44a875e5c4f.jpg?v=1731426478","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/farida-9781774151747","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}