Girls of Riyadh
Published on 5. June 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-14-103061-6 (ISBN)
Description
Gamrah's faith in her new husband is not exactly returned ...
Sadeem is a little too willing to please her fiance ...
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-between sneaking out behind their parents' backs, dating, shopping, watching American TV and having fun, they're still trying to be good little Muslim girls. That is, pleasing their families and their men.
But can you be a twenty-first century girl and a Saudi girl?
Sadeem is a little too willing to please her fiance ...
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-between sneaking out behind their parents' backs, dating, shopping, watching American TV and having fun, they're still trying to be good little Muslim girls. That is, pleasing their families and their men.
But can you be a twenty-first century girl and a Saudi girl?
Reviews / Votes
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 Statesman Irresistible and thought-provoking...an entertaining read: revealing, hilarious and chilling in turn * The Independent *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
no pictures
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
228 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-103061-6 (9780141030616)
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Previous edition
Rajaa Alsanea
Girls of Riyadh
Book
06/2008
Penguin Books Ltd
€27.42
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Person
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.
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.