Specters
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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).
Radwa Ashour
Radwa Ashour, a native of Cairo, is Professor of English at Ain Shams University. She has written several well-known novels and short stories, as well as critical works on Arabic literature.
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