Girls of Riyadh
$31.25
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2008
Summary
Funny and tragic, a novel about the lives of the young people of Saudi Arabia—a world that up to now has been a mystery.
Gamrah’s faith in her new husband is not exactly returned… Sadeem is a little too willing to please her fiancé… Michelle is half-American and the wrong class for her boyfriend’s family… While Lamees works hard with little time for love.
The girls of Riyadh are young, attractive, and living by Saudi Arabia’s strict cultural traditions. Well, not quite. In-bet…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141030616 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141030615 |
| Author: | Rajaa Alsanea |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2008 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
Raises important questions about self-respect, tolerance and emotional maturity’e
Raises important questions about self-respect, tolerance and emotional maturity…lifts the veil of an obscured world * Telegraph Magazine *Brave and surprisingly informative * Guardian *‘Highly readable…wonderfully vivid’ New StatesmanIrresistible and thought-provoking…an entertaining read: revealing, hilarious and chilling in turn * The Independent *
About The Author
Rajaa Alsanea
Rajaa Alsanea grew up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the daughter of a family of doctors. She currently lives in Chicago where she is a dental graduate student. She is twenty-five years old and this is her first novel. Originally released in Arabic in 2005, Girls of Riyadh was immediately banned in Saudi Arabia due to controversial content. Black-market copies of the novel circulated and the originality of Girls of Riyadh continues to create controversy all over the Arab world and has been a bestseller across much of the Middle East.
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