TY - BOOK AU - Shaykh,Hanān TI - Women of sand and myrrh SN - 0385423586 AV - PJ7862.H356 W66 1992 PY - 1992/// CY - New York PB - Anchor Books KW - Women KW - Middle East KW - Fiction KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcgft N1 - Originally published: Quartet Books, 1989 N2 - Little is known of what life is like for contemporary Arab women living in the Middle East. One of the few literary voices speaking out from that still closed society is Hanan al-Shaykh, whose novel The Story of Zahra was banned in most Arab countries. Now available for the first time in the U.S. is her newest novel, a story of four women treated to every luxury but freedom ER -