In 'Woman at Point Zero,' author Nawal El Saadawi brings us on a heartbreaking journey into a women's prison in 1970's Egypt and tells the tale of a sex worker sentenced to death for the murder of her pimp.

Inspired by true events, the author, who is also a medical doctor, met the protagonist Firdaus in prison during research she was conducting on neurosis in Egyptian women.

'Woman at Point Zero' is a must-read feminist classic, and I highly recommend it too!