# So Vast the Prison

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- Book: [So Vast the Prison](https://www.bookquiver.com/assia-djebar/so-vast-the-prison) ([So Vast the Prison.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/assia-djebar/so-vast-the-prison.md))
- Authors: [Assia Djebar](https://www.bookquiver.com/assia-djebar), [Betsy Wing](https://www.bookquiver.com/betsy-wing)
- Publisher: seven_stories_press
- ISBN: 978-15-8322-067-2
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2001-05-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

So Vast the Prison is the double-threaded story of a modern, educated Algerian woman existing in a man's society, and, not surprisingly, living a life of contradictions. Djebar, too, tackles cross-cultural...