So Vast the Prison A Novel

An Algerian living in exile and writing under a pseudonym plays the contradictions of her heroine's existence against the bloody carnage of Carthage, a great civilization to which the Berbers were once compared.

Betsy Wing is the author of Look Out for Hydrophobia, short stories and a novella and has published in The Southern Review and other journals. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The Silence of Writing

11

(8)

What is Erased in the Heart

The Siesta

19

(6)

The Face

25

(12)

Space, Darkness

37

(11)

The Dance

48

(18)

The Absence

66

(21)

Before, After

87

(24)

The Goodbye

111

(12)

Erased in Stone

The Slave in Tunis

123

(8)

The Renegade Count

131

(4)

The Archeologist Lord

135

(7)

Destruction

142

(4)

The Secret

146

(7)

The Stele and the Flames

153

(6)

The Deported Writer

159

(12)

Abalessa

164

(7)

A Silent Desire

``Fugitive Without Knowing It''

171

(7)

Arable Woman I

178

(25)

First Movement: Of the Mother as Traveler

181

(22)

Arable Woman II

203

(21)

Second Movement: Of the Grandmother as a Young Bride

207

(17)

Arable Woman III

224

(28)

Third Movement: Of the Mother as Little Girl

230

(22)

Arable Woman IV

252

(26)

Fourth Movement: Of the Narrator in the French Night

258

(20)

Arable Woman V

278

(25)

Fifth Movement: Of the Narrator as an Adolescent

284

(19)

Arable Woman VI

303

(27)

Sixth Movement: Of Desire and its Desert

311

(19)

Arable Woman VII

330

(23)

Seventh Movement: Shadows of Separation

334

(19)

The Blood of Writing

Yasmina

353

(3)

The Blood of Writing---Final

356

(4)

Glossary

360

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So Vast the Prison A Novel

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