Eight months on Ghazzah Street /
Mantel, Hilary, 1952-
Eight months on Ghazzah Street / Hilary Mantel. - London : HarperPerennial, 2004. - 298 p. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: London: Viking, 1988.
Frances Shore is a cartographer by trade, a maker of maps, but when her husband's work takes them 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 and watchful.
9780007172917 (pbk.) : 7.99 0007172915 (pbk.) : 7.99
British--Saudi Arabia--Fiction.
Women--Saudi Arabia--Fiction.
General.
General.
PR6063.A438
Eight months on Ghazzah Street / Hilary Mantel. - London : HarperPerennial, 2004. - 298 p. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: London: Viking, 1988.
Frances Shore is a cartographer by trade, a maker of maps, but when her husband's work takes them 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 and watchful.
9780007172917 (pbk.) : 7.99 0007172915 (pbk.) : 7.99
British--Saudi Arabia--Fiction.
Women--Saudi Arabia--Fiction.
General.
General.
PR6063.A438