Summary
‘INSTANTLY GRIPPING’ JENNIFER EGAN
The lives of five women collide in the Arabian Gulf as each looks for a way to rewrite their future.
Dounia, a young Saudi finds herself alienated and alone as she prepares for motherhood in an air-conditioned mansion in the middle of the desert.
After losing her home and baby in a natural disaster, Flora does the unthinkable and leaves her surviving child in the Philippines to become an overseas domestic worker.
Pushed by her…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399815277 |
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| ISBN-10: | 139981527X |
| Author: | Mo Ogrodnik |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 642g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 158mm x 44mm |
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GULF is instantly gripping: a hurtling, sensory plunge into the lives of women in crisis whose worlds come to overlap in unexpected ways. Mo Ogrodnik is a gifted, arresting newcomer to the literary landscape. – Jennifer Egan, author of THE CANDY HOUSE‘Ogrodnik achieves what only a debut novelist of fierce moral clarity and cinematic instinct could attempt: She plunges headlong into the fissures of contemporary womanhood stretched across the blazing, glittering mirage of the Arabian Peninsula … The novel’s power lies in the dissonant harmony of its five interlinked stories … In this, Gulf belongs on the shelf beside Rankine’s Citizen, Ondaatje’s Billy the Kid, and Sebald’s Austerlitz … This book belongs in classrooms, in human rights archives and on nightstands … This fiction as an invocation, as an exorcism and as a protest. This is the kind of book women pass to each other in silence, across borders and across time. And we are changed. And we are seen’ – Ruchira Gupta * Dawn Journal *
About The Author
Mo Ogrodnik
Mo Ogrodnik is a filmmaker, writer, and professor in the film department at NYU. She served as the associate dean of the arts for NYU in Abu Dhabi and as a mentor for the Sundance Labs in Jordan. Gulf is her first novel.
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