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Now translated into multiple languages, and with a sequel in the works, this novel\/memoir takes us from Ghorbel\u2019s abused childhood through college years at the Sorbonne, a difficult sexuality and early marriage, all in the form of an epistolary to her rapist. Ghorbel\u2019s voice is at times cool and judgmental, at times breaking with emotion, but always compelling, as it traces her move to France and a growing resistance to the restrictive laws and traditions in her home country.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\">This is a cry whose echoes rip the seven skies, chill the seven lands and linger in the reader\u2019s head a long time\u2014a very long time\u2014after closing this book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2014Mokhtar Sahnoun, University of Tunisia<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I welcome [Wafa Ghorbel] here\u2026 so that she gets read; so that everyone knows that, as a woman, she battles authoritarianism, ignorance and barbarity. 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