The Stone Woman, by: Tarek Ali

The old parable tells of a stone statue of a beautiful woman in a ready position and listening carefully to a speaker sitting at her feet, revealing in a ritual similar to confession of stories and secrets, and perhaps the act of disclosure here is an escape from an inevitable fate or an act of resistance finally.. Borrowing a striking metaphor from the previous parable, the writer, novelist, and famous political theorist Tarek Ali calls his novel "The Stone Woman." Number of pages: 369