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    Golden Chariot

    By Fadia Faqir

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    From her prison cell in Cairo, Aziza decides to create a golden chariot to take her and fellow prisoners to heaven, where their dreams can be fulfilled. Aziza's narrative holds together the stories of the other women and their crimes as they yearn for a better life, but cannot realize these dreams.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGarnet Publishing
    Release dateNov 21, 2014
    ISBN9781859640371
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    Fadia Faqir

    A dual citizen of Britain and Jordan, Fadia Faqir is an award-winning novelist, playwright and short story writer. Her works have been published in eighteen countries and translated into fourteen languages, and include five novels including Pillars of Salt, My Name is Salma and Willow Trees Don't Weep. She is also the editor and co-translator of In the House of Silence: Autobiographical Essays by Arab Women Writers (1998) and was the senior editor of the Arab Women Writers series, for which she received the Women in Publishing 1995 New Venture Award. She was a member of the judging panel of Al-Multaqa Short Story Competition 2016. Fadia Faqir is an Honorary Fellow of St Mary's College and a Writing Fellow at St Aidan's College, Durham University, where she teaches creative writing. She is a co-founder of the Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship.

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