The Wiles of Men and Other Stories Review

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The Wiles of Men and Other Stories ReviewBakr touches on many issues that face women and others in modern Egyptian society (also Arab).
By using animals, women from different social classes and family situations she shows how women react adn try to change hard situations.
These stories were very empowering and although her anger for the status-quo for women and other disadvantaged people is hidden, one can see through the women's triumphs that there is hope out there for these women.
She stressed women's solidarity to combat all pressing issues along with education, perserverance, and communication between people.
I was hooked on all stories. She is able to write a 10 page story and develop characters and plots that makes you want the story to go on and on.
The last novella hidden in the book is a bit too much for the book of stories. The issues are more complex and hard to fit with the other stories, but just as good.The Wiles of Men and Other Stories Overview"Here, finally, is some writing with a genuine purchase on things of worth. The collection of pithy short stories, filled with a sad wonder, tells of contemporary Egyptians . . . timorously rebelling against the conformism of life along the Nile." --(london) observer". . . Bakr emerges as a fine observer of her country's times, with a vision which remains, for all its engagement, quirky and distinctively personal." --(london) times literary supplementSet among the poor of contemporary Cairo, these thirteen stories and one short novella tell of women struggling to provide themselves with the basic necessities of life. They explore the limits of self-awareness, the pressures to conform, and some of the strange paths to escape that women resort to in a conservative society shot through with social and sexual prejudice and preconceptions. Salwa Bakr contends that Arabic literature has been the domain of men and that it is the task of women writing in Arabic to redress the balance. One of Egypt's most interesting women writers of fiction, she is an emerging talent of great power. Her published oeuvre includes three story collections, a novel, and many popular articles. This translation of The Wiles of Men and Other Stories was first published in hardcover by Quartet Books of Great Britain in 1992.

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