Girls of Riyadh : [a novel] / Rajaa Alsanea ; translated by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth.
2008
PJ7962.A55 B3613 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
Girls of Riyadh : [a novel] / Rajaa Alsanea ; translated by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth.
Author
Ṣāniʻ, Rajāʾ ʻAbd Allāh.
Uniform Title
Banāt al-Riyāḍ. English
ISBN
9780143113478 (pbk.)
014311347X (pbk.)
014311347X (pbk.)
Publication Details
New York : Penguin Books, 2008, c2007.
Language
English
Description
x, 286 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
PJ7962.A55 B3613 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
892.7/36
Summary
This debut novel, banned in the author's own country, reveals the social, romantic, and sexual tribulations of four young women from the elite classes of Saudi Arabia. Every week after Friday prayers, the anonymous narrator sends an email to the female subscribers of her online chat group. In fifty such emails over the course of a year, we witness the tragicomic reality of four university students negotiating their love lives, their professional success, and their rebellions, large and small, against their cultural traditions. The world these women inhabit is a modern one that contains "Sex and the City," dating, and sneaking out of their parents' houses, and all this causes the girls to collide endlessly with ancient customs. The never-ending cultural conflicts underscore the tumult of being an educated modern woman growing up in the 21st century amid a culture firmly rooted in an ancient way of life.
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Subtitle from cover.
"Penguin readers guide available online at www.penguin.com or www.vpbookclub.com" --P. [4] of cover.
"Penguin readers guide available online at www.penguin.com or www.vpbookclub.com" --P. [4] of cover.
Added Author
Booth, Marilyn.
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