Twenty-two-year-old Maryam, a Saudi woman living comfortably with
her parents in Medina, is old enough to get married and old enough
to get a job. She is also old enough to pursue postgraduate studies
in English in Leeds in the United Kingdom-but that option fuels her
dilemma. Her hesitation to study abroad stems from the fact she is
a devout and traditional woman, deeply dedicated to her Muslim
faith. She is initially ambivalent about leaving the world she has
always known. Even so, encouraged by her mother, an academic who
also studied and lived in the West, she ventures to this new place
and encounters both enriching experiences and a sense of
displacement. What's more, her sojourn in the West leads to a new
set of decisions to be made. A story of contemporary women's
fiction, Road to Medina follows Maryam from the age of twenty-two,
when she is deciding to apply to study in Leeds, to her eventual
return to Saudi Arabia several years later.
General
| Imprint: |
Iuniverse, Inc.
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
March 2014 |
| First published: |
March 2014 |
| Authors: |
Alaa Alghamdi
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
168 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4917-2563-4 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
1-4917-2563-X |
| Barcode: |
9781491725634 |
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