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The Tent
Miral al-Tahawy
1996
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A girl grows up confined within the closed world of a Bedouin clan.
Why this book matters
The first Bedouin woman to bring the female voice of the nomadic world into the Arabic novel. The Tent is a piercing story of a woman's confinement, translated into many languages.
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