# Prisoner of Love

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- Book: [Prisoner of Love](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-genet/prisoner-of-love) ([Prisoner of Love.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-genet/prisoner-of-love.md))
- Authors: [Jean Genet](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-genet), [Ahdaf Soueif](https://www.bookquiver.com/ahdaf-soueif), [Barbara Bray](https://www.bookquiver.com/barbara-bray)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-028-1
- Pages: 430
- Published: 2003-01-31
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Starting in 1970, Jean Genet—petty thief, prostitute, modernist master—spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced...