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"Hasan, the local imam's son, has the strange ability to smell a menstruating woman among a thousand others. This helps him classify members of the opposite sex with whom he has little contact until the day he has a brief affair with a married woman. This sexual initiation irrevocably transforms him and shakes his entire system of beliefs. Hasan no longer knows what to believe in nor who he is, he just knows he has to avoid the marriage his father has arranged for him." "Hasan's story runs in tandem with Wisam's, a friend of his sister's, who is unhappily married and having her first lesbian…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2001Saqi · 160 pages · 9780863563126
FictionMuslimsMan-woman relationshipsFiction, generalMenstruation






