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...
Saudi Arabia.Touted as a breakthrough, this epistolary novel needs to be understood in its cultural context in order to be something other than not-very-engaging chick lit. Within that cultural context, this novel-in-one-sided-e-mails is discrepant, jarring, and revolutionary (at least within the do...
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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