Girls of Riyadh - Softcover

Alsanea, Rajaa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141030615 ISBN 13: 9780141030616

Publisher: Penguin, 2008

Synopsis

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-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?

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

`Wonderfully vivid, highly readable. Will tell you more about one of the world's oddest and most closed societies than a library of books...excellent' New Statesman

'A tell-all novel set in the Islamic world's most conservative society' Telegraph

`Offers a rare glimpse into the lives of women of "the velvet class"...brave and surprisingly informative' Guardian

`An absorbing expose of life behind the veil' Daily Telegraph

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141030615
• ISBN 13: 9780141030616
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320