false 937191 6 Isma and Hajila are both wives of the same man, but they are not rivals. Isma - older, vibrant, passionate, emancipated - is in stark contrast to the passive, cloistered Hajila. In alternating chapters, Isma tells her own story in the first person, and then Hajila's in the second person. She details how she escaped from the traditional restraints imposed upon the women of her country - and how, in making her escape, she condemns Hajila to those very restraints. When Hajila catches a glimpse of an unveiled woman, she realized that she, too, wants a life beyond the veil, and it is Isma who offers her the key to her own freedom. 922170 1987 A Sister to Scheherazade total:32|5:8|4:12|3:8|2:3|1:1| 32 119 54 5 1 0 false false Sun Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Oct 18 11:23:08 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 09 10:28:45 -0800 2008 twice This time I had a hard time reading it too. Somehow the style of writing of the author is very confusing to me. I had a hard time figuring out who was telling whose story throughout the whole book.
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