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050 00 $aPJ7962.A55$bB3613 2007
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100 1 $aṢāniʻ, Rajāʼ ʻAbd Allāh.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2006023433
240 10 $aBanāt al-Riyāḍ.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007015849
245 10 $aGirls of Riyadh /$cRajaa Alsanea ; translated by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth.
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Press,$c2007.
300 $aviii, 286 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"In her debut novel 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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aYoung women$zSaudi Arabia$zRiyadh$vFiction.
655 7 $aDomestic fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026295
655 7 $aEpistolary fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026314
700 1 $aBooth, Marilyn.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87936690
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