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In this bold debut, Rajaa Alsanea reveals the social, romantic, and sexual tribulations of four young women from the elite classes of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Every week after Friday prayers, an anonymous female narrator sends e-mails to the subscribers of her online list-serv. In fifty such e-mails, spanning more than a year, the Scheherazade-like narrator unfolds little by little the comic-tragic reality of a small group of girlfriends–Gamrah, Michelle, Sadeem, and Lamees–as they negotiate their love lives, their professional successes, and their rebellions, large and small, against their cultural traditions.
Riyadh is the larger setting of the novel, but the characters travel all over the globe shedding traditional garb as they literally and figuratively cross over into Western society. These women understand the Western worldview and experiment with reconciling pieces of it with their own. This groundbreaking novel opens up the hidden world of the Saudi woman to the rest of us–now, for the first time, we are able to understand their conflicts, struggles, and frustrations; their hopes, beliefs, and dreams.
- Rajaa Abdullah Alsanea - Author
- Kate Reading - Narrator
OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781415941164
- File size: 246137 KB
- Release date: July 10, 2007
- Duration: 08:32:47
MP3 audiobook
- ISBN: 9781415941164
- File size: 246633 KB
- Release date: July 10, 2007
- Duration: 08:32:47
- Number of parts: 7