by Assia Djebar · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422699064
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«Sombra sultana» is the novel by Algerian writer Assia Djebar, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (215 pages, in Spanish).
The story interweaves the lives of Hayila and Isma, two women who have shared the same man, though only one of them knows it. The narrative addresses the freedom to look and be looked at, the veiled body, the passage through spaces forbidden to women and the relationship with men, as well as the memory of a nearly mythical childhood.
Work originally published as «Ombre sultane» in 1987; this Spanish edition appeared in 2003.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in Algerian literature and in stories about female identity and freedom.
Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, known by her pen name Assia Djebar, was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. She is "frequently associated with women's writing movements, her novels are clearly focused on the creation of a genealogy of Algerian women, and her political stance is virulently anti-patriarchal as much as it is anti-colonial." Djebar is considered to be one of North Africa's pre-eminent and most influential writers. She was elected to the Académie Française on 16 June 2005, the first writer from the Maghreb to achieve such recognition. For the entire body of her work she was awarded the 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She was often named as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
