GIRLS OF RIYADH
by:
Rajaa Alsanea (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781905490202 (1905490208)
ASIN: 1905490208
Publish date: 2007
Publisher: Fig Tree
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Romance,
Religion,
Contemporary,
Asia,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Womens,
Islam,
Fiction
This can be described as Sex in the City in Riyadh. Chicklit with a Saudi Arabian accent. That show is even referenced in the book, about four friends, young women of the wealthy and educated "velvet class," trying to find love in contemporary Saudi Arabia. Originally written in Arabic, the author h...
This was an interesting novel. I'm very curious how closely it resembles real life in Saudi Arabia. The premise was certainly interesting. A woman forms a yahoo!group and sends out a weekly e-mail detailing the lives of her (upper middle class?) friends. There's a little bit of introduction befor...
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