The Sixth Day (Serpent's Tail Book) - Softcover

Andree Chedid is a poet, dramatist and novelist. Born and educated in Cairo, she moved to Paris, where she now lives, in 1946. Her works have won major literary awards including the Prix Goncourt (for short stories) and the Prix Malarme (for Poetry). Two previous novels, The Sixth Day ('A remarkable novel' Sunday Times) and From Sleep Unbound ('A brilliant touching book' Guardian), are also published by Serpent's Tail.

Foremost among Arab women writers, Chedid may be at her best in this slight, simple tale of Om Hassan, a woman exhausting herself in the struggle to bring her grandson whole through the ravages of cholera. The contagion, and reaction to it, force the two to seek isolation, first amidst the millions of Cairo and then on a small boat making its way down the Nile to the seathe way somehow to hope, to new life. The novel's lustrous prose and its concluding epiphany are more than enough to explain why this novel, written in 1960 and published in translation in England in 1962, should finally have been made available to American readers.L.M. Lewis, Eastern Kentucky Univ., Richmond
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