Girls of Riyadh, a novel, Rajaa Alsanea ; translated by Marilyn Booth
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Girls of Riyadh, a novel, Rajaa Alsanea ; translated by Marilyn Booth
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Girls of Riyadh
Responsibility statement
Rajaa Alsanea ; translated by Marilyn Booth
Sub title
a novel
Summary
Reveals the social, romantic, and sexual tribulations of four young women from the elite classes of Saudi Arabia. Every week after Friday prayers, an anonymous female narrator sends e-mails to the subscribers of her listserv. In fifty such e-mails, spanning more than a year, she unfolds little by little the reality of a small group of girlfriends--Garmrah, Michelle, Sadeem, and Lamees--as they negotiate their love lives, their professional successes, and their rebellions, large and small, against their cultural traditions
Target audience
general
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Creator
Subject
- Domestic fiction
- Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Young women -- Saudi Arabia -- Fiction
- Muslim women -- Saudi Arabia -- Fiction
- Electronic mail messages -- Fiction
- Epistolary fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Saudi Arabia -- Fiction
- Women -- Saudi Arabia -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Electronic discussion groups -- Fiction
Is Part Of
Incoming Resources
- Has instance2
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject11
- Domestic fiction
- Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Young women -- Saudi Arabia -- Fiction
- Muslim women -- Saudi Arabia -- Fiction
- Electronic mail messages -- Fiction
- Epistolary fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Saudi Arabia -- Fiction
- Women -- Saudi Arabia -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Electronic discussion groups -- Fiction
- Is Part Of1