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- catalog abstract "Kafr El Teen is a beautiful, sleepy village on the banks of the Nile. Yet at its heart it is tyrannical and corrupt. The Mayor, Sheikh Hamzawi of the mosque, and the Chief of the Village Guard are obsessed by wealth and use and abuse the women of the village, taking them as slaves, marrying them and beating them. Resistance, it seems, is futile. Zakeya, an ordinary villager, works in the fields by the Nile and watches the world, squatting in the dusty entrance to her house, quietly accepting her fate. It is only when her nieces fall prey to the Mayor that Zakeya becomes enraged by the injustice of her society and possessed by demons. Where is the loving and peaceful God in whom Zakeya believes?".
- catalog alternative "Mawt al-rajul al-waḥīd ʻalá al-arḍ. English".
- catalog contributor b498575.
- catalog coverage "Egypt 20th century Politics and government Fiction.".
- catalog created "1985.".
- catalog date "1985".
- catalog date "1985.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1985.".
- catalog description "Kafr El Teen is a beautiful, sleepy village on the banks of the Nile. Yet at its heart it is tyrannical and corrupt. The Mayor, Sheikh Hamzawi of the mosque, and the Chief of the Village Guard are obsessed by wealth and use and abuse the women of the village, taking them as slaves, marrying them and beating them. Resistance, it seems, is futile. Zakeya, an ordinary villager, works in the fields by the Nile and watches the world, squatting in the dusty entrance to her house, quietly accepting her fate. It is only when her nieces fall prey to the Mayor that Zakeya becomes enraged by the injustice of her society and possessed by demons. Where is the loving and peaceful God in whom Zakeya believes?".
- catalog extent "vi, 138 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "God dies by the Nile.".
- catalog identifier "0862322944 (hard)".
- catalog identifier "0862322952 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "God dies by the Nile.".
- catalog issued "1985".
- catalog issued "1985.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "engara".
- catalog publisher "London : Zed Books ; Totowa, N.J., USA : US distributor, Biblio Distribution Center,".
- catalog relation "God dies by the Nile.".
- catalog spatial "Egypt 20th century Politics and government Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Egypt".
- catalog subject "892/.736 19".
- catalog subject "Arabic fiction Egypt Translation into English.".
- catalog subject "Egyptians Social conditions 20th century Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PJ7862.A3 M313 1985".
- catalog title "God dies by the Nile / Nawal El Saadawi ; translated from the Arabic by Sherif Hetata.".
- catalog title "Mawt al-rajul al-waḥīd ʻalá al-arḍ. English".
- catalog type "text".