The golden chariot

Summary: From her cell in a women's prison, Aziza decides to create a golden chariot to take her to heaven, where her wishes and dreams can be fulfilled. As she muses on who to take with her, she tells the life stories of her fellow prisoners and decides in her heart which ones deserve a free ride to paradise. Aziza's cruelly frank comments about her friends and their various crimes-including murder, theft, and drug-dealing-weave these tales together into a contemporary Arabian Nights. Salwa Bakr takes a wry and cynical look at how women from widely differing backgrounds, some innocent and some guilty,

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ISBN: 9789774161797
ISBN: 9774161793
ISBN: 9781617974298
ISBN: 9781617971938
ISBN: 9781306504010
ISBN: 1617974293
ISBN: 1617971936
ISBN: 1306504015
Physical Description: 1 online resource (193 pages).
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Publisher: Cairo, Egypt ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2008, �1995.

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General Note:	1st English ed. published in 1995 by Garnet Pub. Multi-User. CatMonthString:june.23
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
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Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.