The Consequences of Love (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The Consequences of Love Under the hot sun, the Jeddah streets make a scene from an old black-and-white movie: the women dressed like long, dark shadows and the men in their light cotton tunics. Naser's friends have all left town for cooler climes but he can't get away: he's an outsider in Saudi and he needs to hold down his job at the local carwash.
Full description- Publisher: VINTAGE
- Published: 05 March 2009
- Format: Paperback 352 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780099521143 ISBN 10: 0099521148
- Sales rank: 259,104
Full description for The Consequences of Love
It is summer in Jeddah but Naser's life seems bleak. An immigrant in an unfriendly land, his friends have fled town for cooler climes and left him to his dead-end job and the scrutiny of the religious police, who keep watch through the shaded windows of their government jeeps. He spends his time writing to his mother in Africa and yearning to meet a woman - but in a country that separates men and women with walls and veils he feels increasingly trapped. Then, one of the black-clad women drops a piece of paper at his feet, instructing him to follow her pink shoes and suddenly his black-and-white life blooms into colour. But relationships between unmarried men and women are illegal under the strict Wahhibism of Saudi state rule - and it's not long before their forbidden love must face the hardest test of all...
