The Story of Zahra: A Novel

With more than 21,000 copies in print of??Women Of Sand And Myrrh, and more than??15,000 copies of The Story Of??Zahra, Hanan al-Shaykh is the best known and most??admired woman writer of the Arab world. The paperback??publication of Zahra will bring??this passionate and courageous novel to a much??larger group of readers. Its haunting story of a??young Lebanese woman who attempts to stem the??violence in Beirut by initiating a sexual liaison with a??sniper has "lifted the corner of a dark??curtain" (Sunday Telegraph )??from a world that fascinates us??all.