Perplexed: Where the Beginning and the End Meet! - Softcover

Eissa, Angie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 144909712X ISBN 13: 9781449097127

Publisher: AuthorHouseUK, 2010

Synopsis

Four Ladies lost in noisy turbulent Cairo; Dina Farouk, a teenager totally consumed by the idea of leaping to another social class and willing to do whatever it takes to get there. Mai Moussa, a Westernised Egyptian girl who does not believe in love or marriage trips and falls into a loopy relationship. Leila, in her thirties, locked up in the perfect marriage looking for a chance to escape. Lastly Malak Abdel Ghaffar, a prominent business woman who helps all three ladies see the ultimate and inevitable truth. Perplexed tells you the story of how women in Egypt are crushed between the governing rules of a harsh society and a backlog of traditions and beliefs. The story portrays the real lives of well-educated Egyptian women fighting against their own bringing up, their circumstances, fanatic believes and black boxed culture defeating their own fears and ties in perseverance of survival in the land of Chaos. An Egyptian Novel revealing the concealed values and hidden chauvinistic beliefs of modern Egypt, the conflicting and often confusing relation between life and religion in Egypt, the inevitable struggle between need and conscience, right and wrong.

About this title

About the Author

Angie Eissa, born in a small town of Lower Egypt in the Eastern part of the Nile Delta. As an introvert with a timid personality, she always found refuge in writing and skillfully analyzed everything around her. Life to Angie is a gigantic puzzle which she strives to explore and complete. She persists to establish her profound belief that the majority of humanity is missing the essence objective of living. Angie continues to pursue her undefeatable love of the software industry while striving to fulfill her genetically-embedded calling as a modern novelist and above all a better human being

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouseUK
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 144909712X
• ISBN 13: 9781449097127
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224