The Occasional Virgin

From a major novelist of the Arab world comes a bold, witty and highly contemporary novel about two women looking for love, set in Italy, Lebanon and London

Autorentext

Hanan Al-Shaykh is one of the Arab world's most acclaimed writers. She was born in Lebanon and brought up in Beirut, before going to Cairo to receive her education. She was a successful journalist in Beirut, then later lived in the Arabian Gulf, before moving to London. She is the author of the short story collection I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops and her novels include The Story of Zahra, Women of Sand and Myrrh, Beirut Blues, Only in London, which was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and The Locust and the Bird, a memoir of her mother's life. Most recently she published One Thousand and One Nights, her acclaimed reimagining of Arabic folktales. Hanan Al-Shaykh lives in London.

Klappentext

From the acclaimed author of One Thousand and One Nights comes a bold, witty and highly contemporary novel about two women looking for love, set in Italy, Lebanon and London

Zusammenfassung
Brilliant . A modern Jane Austen comedy, wise, witty and unexpectedly profound Alberto Manguel