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Forbidden vision

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A novel on the oppression of women in Algeria. It features a family whose tyrannical father beats a daughter for menstruating, another daughter has to bandage her breasts to keep them small, and the mother squats over smoke in the …

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A novel on the oppression of women in Algeria. It features a family whose tyrannical father beats a daughter for menstruating, another daughter has to bandage her breasts to keep them small, and the mother squats over smoke in the hope of bearing a son. The author is an Algerian born in France.

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"A novel on the oppression of women in Algeria. It features a family whose tyrannical father beats a daughter for menstruating, another daughter has to bandage her breasts to keep …"

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