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Among the well-to-do families of Jeddah, Palestinian-born desert guide Nayir is an outsider. But when Nouf ash-Shrawi, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy Saudi dynasty, disappears just before her arranged marriage, Nayir is the man the Shrawis trust to bring her home.
Days later Nouf's body is found in a desert wadi, but Nayir's task is not over; he feels compelled to uncover the disturbing circumstances surrounding her death. His search takes him far from his natural terrain, away from the endless dunes and empty skies of the desert and into the city of Jeddah, with its oppressive monuments, foreigners' compounds and shuttered apartments. Most troubling of all, his investigations force him to work closely with Katya Hijazi, a forensic scientist. He finds himself struggling with emotions he has fought all his life to repress and with loyalties he has never before questioned: to old friends, to his faith, and to a culture in which women take their secrets to their graves.
Vivid and suspenseful, The Night of the Mi'raj is an extraordinary psychological drama and a mesmerising portrait of a society at once exquisitely cultured and profoundly claustrophobic.
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** 'Subtle, interesting explorations of sexual and religious repression. Ferrarris . . . has a lucid eye for cultural pressures and the sympathy she extends to her (often fearsomely devout) characters makes this both a likeable novel and a timely one (NEW STATESMAN)
** 'Ferraris's remarkable debut is a tense psychological drama, and a riveting portrait of everyday life in a society with paranoid attitudes towards women and sex (SUNDAY TIMES)
** 'Gripping . . . this is a fascinating mystery, with a complex and likable hero (THE TIMES)
** 'Zoë Ferraris lived for a time in a religious community in Saudi Arabia and has drawn on her experiences in The Night of the Mi'raj . . . as a portrait of contemporary life in Jeddah, it's a success (OBSERVER)
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** 'Ferraris's remarkable debut is a tense psychological drama, and a riveting portrait of everyday life in a society with paranoid attitudes towards women and sex (SUNDAY TIMES)
** 'Gripping . . . this is a fascinating mystery, with a complex and likable hero (THE TIMES)
** 'Zoë Ferraris lived for a time in a religious community in Saudi Arabia and has drawn on her experiences in The Night of the Mi'raj . . . as a portrait of contemporary life in Jeddah, it's a success (OBSERVER)
* A compelling page-turner with a wonderful central character, which also gives a fascinating insight into the closed world of Saudi Arabia
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- PublisherLittle, Brown & Company
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0316027499
- ISBN 13 9780316027496
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages368
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