The Female Experience

The Female Experience: Selected Short Stories by Doris Lessing, Edna O’Brien, Marilyn French, Françoise Malle, and other prominent contemporary international writers, in addition to the first full text published in Arabic by the 1993 Nobel Prize-winning American writer Toni Morrison. Selected and presented by Sonallah Ibrahim, this book expands our knowledge of women and our understanding of ourselves! The most daring thing a woman has ever written about herself… A contemporary vision of women: as adolescents, in love with their sex, with men, and with others than their husbands… lost, experienced, frustrated, cold, a mother, and a killer! The author says, “All I hope for from this book is that it will expand our knowledge of women and our understanding of ourselves, and that it will contribute to bringing closer the day when the women of our country no longer pay the price.” Selected translations of international women’s literature include “In Tamara’s Arms” by French writer Françoise Malle, “Maud’s Waking Up” by American writer Rosalyn Drexler, “He Can’t Be Dead” and “He Talked to Me” by American writer Rona Jaffe, “Welcome” by American writer Harriet Sommers, “Love in the Eighty-Third Person” by American writer Joyce Albert, “Diary of an Unfaithful Wife” by Irish writer Edna O’Brien, “The Golden Notebook” by English writer Doris Lessing, “The Collector of Treasures” by African writer Bessie Head, and “Sula: A Thin Gold Beneath Alabaster” by American writer Toni Morrison.