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Surviving a cold childhood, overshadowed by her parents' unhappiness and their distant relationship to her, Sahar expects to escape through marriage when she meets the compelling and charming Sami, who is interested in every detail of her life. But what seemed at first to be his loving interest rapidly becomes controlling and ultimately abusive. Sahar yearns for a way out of her intertwined experiences of loss and loneliness. In All the Women Inside Me, Jana Elhassan presents an intricate psychological portrait of a woman, as well as the complexities of interpersonal relationships.

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[S]harp, unabashed prose... Anger, passion, and loss dominate the pages of this gripping, emotional novel as the protagonists face the bloody shadows of their pasts. -- Publishers Weekly Whether it's discussing love or war, this arresting meditation on loss is visceral and honest. -- Library Journal (starred review)

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Jana Fawaz Elhassan is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from Lebanon. She has worked as a journalist for leading newspapers and TV since 2008. In November 2015, she was featured in the BBC 100 Women Season, an annual two-week season that features inspiring women from around the world. Her first novel won Lebanon's Simon Hayek Award and her second and third novels (Me, She, and the Other Woman and The Ninety-Ninth Floor) were shortlisted for the International Prize of Arabic Fiction. This is her second novel to be translated into English. Michelle Hartman is a professor of Arabic Literature at McGill University and literary translator of fiction, based in Montreal. She has written extensively on women's writing and the politics of language use and translation and literary solidarities. She is the translator of several works from Arabic, including Radwa Ashour's memoir The Journey, Iman Humaydan's novels Wild Mulberries and Other Lives, Jana Elhassan's IPAF shortlisted novels The Ninety-Ninth Floor and All the Women Inside Me as well as Alexandra Chreiteh's novels Always Coca Cola and Ali and His Russian Mother.

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