Sisters

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, ca. 1950s. 404 p. [28654]

Novel from Soviet Uzbekistan which deals with the "drama of the struggle for 'uncovered faces.' Jurakhon, Uzbekistan's first woman judge, and Anakhon, once a down-trodden skull-cap embroideress, and her friends finally emerge from the isolation of the Ichari - women's quarters - and forever discard the paranjah, which had concealed their faces from the sun"

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