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The Golden Chariot
Salwa Bakr
1991
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A women's prison and a dream of ascending to heaven.
Why this book matters
One of the first to give voice to Egypt's poorest women. In The Golden Chariot a prisoner chooses who among her cellmates deserves heaven — turning the jail into a gallery of women's lives literature had ignored.
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