Girls of Riyadh

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Label

Girls of Riyadh

Statement of responsibility

Rajaa Alsanea ; translated by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth

Creator

• trueSani, Raja Abd Allah
• Ṣāniʻ, Rajāʼ ʻAbd Allāh

Contributor

• Booth, Marilyn

Subject

• trueDomestic fiction
• trueSelf-fulfillment in women
• trueGender role
• trueHappiness in women
• trueMen/women relations
• trueIntergenerational relations
• true21st century -- 2001 -- 2100
• trueEpistolary novels
• Domestic fiction
• Epistolary fiction
• trueSexuality -- Social aspects
• trueIslamic countries
• trueTranslations -- Arabic to English
• trueSexual freedom
• trueAdult books for young adults
• trueCulture conflict
• Young women -- Saudi Arabia | Riyadh -- Fiction
• trueMuslim women
• trueSaudi Arabia -- Social life and customs
• trueWomen -- Islamic countries
• trueLove
• trueFemale friendship

Genre

• Fiction
• trueDomestic fiction
• trueTranslations
• trueAdult books for young adults
• trueEpistolary novels
• Epistolary fiction

Language

• eng
• ara
• eng

Summary

This debut novel, banned in the author's own country, reveals the social, romantic, and sexual tribulations of four young women from the elite classes of Saudi Arabia. Every week after Friday prayers, the anonymous narrator sends an email to the female subscribers of her online chat group. In fifty such emails over the course of a year, we witness the tragicomic reality of four university students negotiating their love lives, their professional success, and their rebellions, large and small, against their cultural traditions. The world these women inhabit is a modern one that contains "Sex and the City," dating, and sneaking out of their parents' houses, and all this causes the girls to collide endlessly with ancient customs. The never-ending cultural conflicts underscore the tumult of being an educated modern woman growing up in the 21st century amid a culture firmly rooted in an ancient way of life.--From publisher description

Member of

• Banāt al-Riyāḍ
• trueBanat al-Riyad

Storyline

• trueOwn voices

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

892.7/36

Index

no index present

LC call number

PJ7962.A55

LC item number

B3613 2007

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult