A review by thetenaciousbookworm
A Sister to Scheherazade by Assia Djebar

3.0

It was a beautifully written novel, but when I put it down I couldn’t say that I was moved by it. The perpetuation of the narrative that women in the Middle East are oppressed is an old and tired one, and certainly one that reduces women to two dimensional characters, which I felt about all the women in the novel, to one degree or another.