Showcases the prose of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating female wanderers and includes previously unpublished stories and an unfinished novel. This volume exemplifies author's creation of identity in fiction as her writing explores the world of prostitutes, Bedouins, and French colonists in exotic tales of love and conquest.
Isabelle Eberhardt (1877¿1904) died at the age of twenty-seven in a flash flood in the desert town of A¿Sefra, Algeria. Melissa Marcus is the translator of Writings from the Sand, Volume 1: Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt (Nebraska, 2012), Fawzia Assaad¿s Layla, an Egyptian Woman, and Malika Mokeddem¿s The Forbidden Woman (Nebraska, 1998).
