📱 eBook en inglés TRACES OF ENAYAT

When Iman Mersal stumbles upon a great – yet forgotten – novel written by Enayat al-Zayyat, a young woman who killed herself in 1963, four years before her book was published, Mersal begins to research the writer. She tracks down Enayats best friend, who had been Egypts biggest movie star at the time; she is given access to Enayats diaries. Mersal cant accept, as has been widely speculated since Enayats death, that a publishers rejection was the main reason for Enayats suicide. From archives, Enayats writing, and Mersals own interviews and observations, a remarkable portrait emerges of a woman striving to live on her own terms, as well as of the artistic and literary scene in post-revolution Cairo. Blending research with imagination, and adding a great deal of empathy, the award-winning Egyptian poet Iman Mersal has created an unclassifiable masterpiece.