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Ten must-read books to celebrate Women in Translation Month
Girls in Riyadh by Rajaa Al-Sanea, translated by Rajaa Al-Sanea and Marilyn Booth, Penguin Girls in Riyadh caused an uproar in its native Saudi Arabia when it first came out in 2005, so much so that it wasn’t officially banned but very few bookshops would stock it. One of the first bold books of its kind written by a Saudi woman, this easy-to-read book is about the love lives of four close friends, Gamrah, Sadeem, Lamees and Michelle, in early Noughties Saudi Arabia. Reflecting the realities of the very conservative society Saudi Arabia had two decades ago, the novel is structured in a series of emails by a fifth unnamed friend who discloses the secret lives of her fr

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