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This could be the most controversial novel to emerge in our times not justfrom Saudi Arabia but from the whole of the Arab world. Al Hayat Somuch sex. . . . But dont expect a winking Melissa P. of the desert. Here weretalking about stifling gynaecea and cracks of madness reminiscent of The BellJar by Sylvia Plath cynical upper class girls like in Mary McCarthys TheGroup and rich alienating tendencies like in the first Bret Easton Ellis.Marco Cicala Il Venerdi di Repubblica A bestselling book when it appearedin Arabic The Others is a literary tour de force offering a window into oneof the most repressive societies in the world. Siba alHarez tells the storyof a nameless teenager at a girls school in the heavily Shiite EasternProvince of Saudi Arabia. Like her classmates she has no contact with menoutside her family. When the glamorous Dai tries to seduce her her feelings ofguilt are overcome by an overwhelming desire for sexual and emotional intimacy.Dai introduces her to a secret world of lesbian parties online flirtationsand hotel liaisonsa world in which the thrill of infatuation and the shame ofobsession are deeply intertwined. AlHarezs erotic dereamlike story oflooming personal crisis is a remarkable portrait of hidden lives. Siba alHarez is the pseudonym of a twentysixyearold Saudi woman from alQatif inSaudi Arabia. This is her first novel. «
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