Girls of Riyadh - Couverture souple

Alsanea, Rajaa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 014103601X ISBN 13 : 9780141036014

Editeur : Penguin, 2008

Synopsis

Saudi Arabia - where marriages are arranged and there are no cinemas or parties to go to, where social life consists of trying to keep girls and boys apart rather than put them together.

But as Rajaa Alsanea reveals in this absorbing novel, that's not the whole story: determination, mobile phones and the internet have made life easier for young Saudis, and the four girls in this novel are all finding romance even though mostly it goes badly wrong. Girls of Riyadh captures the trials and tribulations of a middle-class society quite unlike our own and blows the lid off all our preconceptions of Arab life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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 and inflammatory content. Black-market copies of the novel circulated and the daring originality of Girls of Riyadh continues to create a firestorm all over the Arab world and has been a bestseller across much of the Middle East.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 014103601X
• ISBN 13: 9780141036014
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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