A review by reading_cure
The Fall of the Imam by Nawal El Saadawi
3.0
An interesting yet confusing work by Saadawi, gives me The Satanic Verses vibes. She has a way of using repetition to give new meaning to the same sentences.
My favourite quotes:
"Here loyalty did not exist except among dogs."
"A buffalo costs more on the market than a woman..."
"I know he will kill me, but it will be with love, not with a bullet."
"'...the treachery of men is allowable by divine law...But the treachery of women is inspired by Satan."'
"And just at the moment when I halted to inhale the odours of my life, the bullet struck me in the back. They always hit me in the back, never stand up to face me from the front."
"The thought of death was in my mind, and yet somehow it never occurred to me that I myself would die."
"...it is not love that kills but its absence..."
My favourite quotes:
"Here loyalty did not exist except among dogs."
"A buffalo costs more on the market than a woman..."
"I know he will kill me, but it will be with love, not with a bullet."
"'...the treachery of men is allowable by divine law...But the treachery of women is inspired by Satan."'
"And just at the moment when I halted to inhale the odours of my life, the bullet struck me in the back. They always hit me in the back, never stand up to face me from the front."
"The thought of death was in my mind, and yet somehow it never occurred to me that I myself would die."
"...it is not love that kills but its absence..."