The occasional virgin
Shaykh, Ḥanān2019
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Huda and Yvonne are on holiday in the Italian Riviera, enjoying the sun and the sparkling Mediterranean, reminiscent of their childhoods in Lebanon. Yvonne doesn't know what she's doing wrong, either there or back in London where she runs an ad agency - she seems to spend her time waiting for the right man to come along and not leave again just as quickly. Her friend Huda has no problems in this department, only she isn't really interested in her effect on men - till Hisham comes along. But it isn't love spurring Huda on, it's her desire to teach him a lesson. Because while you can't escape your past, you can perhaps avenge it.
Main title:
The occasional virgin / Hanan al-Shaykh ; translated by Catherine Cobham.
Author:
Shaykh, Ḥanān, authorCobham, Catherine, translator
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Collation:
221 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Arabic."Adapted from two separate books first published in 2003 and 2015 in Beirut, Imraʾatan ala shati al-bahr (Two women by the sea) and Adhara Londonistan (The virgins of Londonistan) by Dar-al-Adab, Lebanon"--Title page verso.
ISBN:
9781408895689 (pbk. :)
Language:
EnglishArabic
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Related title:
The Occasional Virgin [electronic resource]
BRN:
1194671