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Girls of Riyadh
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  • Published: 1 September 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141915876
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Girls of Riyadh

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EBook
1 Sept 2008
Audiobook
21 Aug 2025
Audiobook
5 July 2007
Paperback
1 Sept 2008
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Saudi Arabia - where marriages are arranged and there are no cinemas or parties to go to, where social life consists of trying to keep girls and boys apart rather than put them together.

But as Rajaa Alsanea reveals in this absorbing novel, that's not the whole story: determination, mobile phones and the internet have made life easier for young Saudis, and the four girls in this novel are all finding romance even though mostly it goes badly wrong. Girls of Riyadh captures the trials and tribulations of a middle-class society quite unlike our own and blows the lid off all our preconceptions of Arab life.
  • Published: 1 September 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141915876
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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About the author

Rajaa Alsanea

Rajaa Alsanea is the author of the novel Girls of Riyadh, which was long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award. She grew up in Saudi Arabia as one of six siblings in a family of doctors and dentists. Alsanea received her bachelor’s degree in endodontics from King Saud University in 2005.
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Praise for Girls of Riyadh

A novel that captures it all . . . a revealing study of one of the world's most secretive societies

Financial Times

Love and lust, men and money . . . a taboo-breaking, bestselling tale of sex and the city

Telegraph