Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (Paperback, New ed)

Mantel's prescient and haunting novel of life in Saudi Arabia, reissued to coincide with publication of GIVING UP THE GHOST. 'Horrifyingly gripping. It urges the reader to suspend normal life entirely until the book is read. ' Grace Ingoldby, Sunday TimesFrances Shore is a cartographer by trade, a maker of maps, but when her husband's work takes her to Saudi Arabia she finds herself unable to map the Kingdom's areas of internal darkness. The regime is corrupt and harsh, the expatriates are hard-drinking money-grubbers, and her Muslim neighbours are secretive, watchful. The streets are not a woman's territory; confined in her flat, she finds her sense of self begin to dissolve. She hears whispers, sounds of distress from the 'empty' flat above her head. She has only rumours, no facts to hang on to, and no one with whom to share her creeping unease. As her days empty of certainty and purpose, her life becomes a blank -- waiting to be filled by violence and disaster.

General

Imprint:	HarperPerennial
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2004
First published:	June 2005
Authors:	Hilary Mantel
Dimensions:	197 x 130 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	298
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-00-717291-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-00-717291-5
Barcode:	9780007172917

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