A review by freddie
The Fall of the Imam by Nawal El Saadawi

2.0

While the book has interesting ideas about women's bodies and lives in a deeply patriarchal society, this novel reads more like a poem rather than a prose narrative. Characters feel amorphous and blend into one another. POVs jump erratically. There is no sense of what really happens, only the idea of something happening. This does not feel like a satisfying read.