Den forbudte historien om fire arabiske kvinner. I en globalisert verden der Internett ikke lar noen dører stå lukket, kan selv de dypeste hemmelighetene og inderligste drømmene deles mellom venner. Hver uke etter fredagsbønnen sender en anonym kvinne ut en ny e-post til spente, ventende mottakere. Gjennom fortellingene om sine fire venninner ved universitetet i Riyadh, avslører hun gradvis en annen side av byjentenes liv. Saudi-Arabias hovedstad får følelsen av storbyliv og rytmen av fester, sex, dyre klær og religion blandet sammen.Da Jentene fra Riyadh først kom ut i Libanon skapte den furore i hele den arabiske verden. Rajaa Alsanea ble stjerneforfatter over natten, og debutromanen hennes toppet listene i flere muslimske land på tross av omfattende forbud, og i enkelte land, kun salg på svartebørsen.

Förbjuden kärlek och passion trotsar sträng saudisk tradition i denna roman där fyra unga kvinnors moderna livsstil skapar förvecklingar.

When Rajaa Alsanea boldly chose to open up the hidden world of Saudi women their private lives and their conflicts with the traditions of their culture she caused a sensation across the Arab world. Now in English, Alsanea s tale of the personal struggles of four young upper-class women offers Westerners an unprecedented glimpse into a society often veiled from view. Living in restrictive Riyadh but traveling all over the globe, these modern Saudi women literally and figuratively shed traditional garb as they search for love, fulfillment, and their place somewhere in between Western society and their Islamic home."

Saudi Arabia - where marriages are arranged and there are no cinemas or parties to go to, where social life consists of trying to keep girls and boys apart rather than put them together. But as Rajaa Alsanea reveals in this absorbing novel, that's not the whole story: determination, mobile phones and the internet have made life easier for young Saudis, and the four girls in this novel are all finding romance even though mostly it goes badly wrong. Girls of Riyadh captures the trials and tribulations of a middle-class society quite unlike our own and blows the lid off all our preconceptions of Arab life.

Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a classic international bestseller and an unforgettable portrait of London. One of the most talked about fictional debuts ever, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book. "Funny, clever...and a rollicking good read." (Independent). "An astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious...I was delighted." (Salman Rushdie). "The almost preposterous talent was clear from the first pages." (Julian Barnes, Guardian). "Quirky, sassy and wise...a big, splashy, populous production reminiscent of books by Dickens and Salman Rushdie...demonstrates both an instinctive storytelling talent and a fully fashioned voice that's street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time." (New York Times). "Smith writes like an old hand, and, sometimes, like a dream." (New Yorker 'Outstanding...A strikingly clever and funny book with a passion for ideas, for language and for the rich tragic-comedy of life. " (Sunday Telegraph). "Do believe the hype." (The Times). "Relentlessly funny...idiosyncratic, and deeply felt." (Guardian).

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