Specters

Winner of the Cairo International Book Fair Prize. Specters tells the story of Radwa and Shagar, two women born the same day. The narrative alternates between their childhoods, their work lives (one a professor of literature and the other of history), their married and unmarried lives, and their respective books. With her novel's structure, Ashour pays tribute to the Arab qareen (double or companion, and sometimes demon) and the ancient Egyptian ka (the spirit that is born with and accompanies an individual through life and beyond).

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Interlink Books
Published: 09/01/2010
ISBN: 9781566568326
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/08/2010
Booklist 01/01/2011 pg. 42
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2010 pg. 1227