Summary
The Night Of The Mi'raj by Zoe Ferraris (Little, Brown, Pounds 14.99) DESERT guide Nayir is asked by his wealthy friend Othman to find his 16-year-old sister Nouf, who has disappeared into the desert around Jeddah. After Nouf's body is discovered, the official verdict is accidental death, but Nayir finds himself delving beneath a cover-up to investigate a murder.
Gradually he learns of Nouf's secret life and her plans to flee the rigorously segregated life of Saudi Arabia, where a man and woman who are not married to one another cannot be seen together in public, and parents can't even take their children to the zoo as a family because men and women must visit at separate times. Nayir's only ally is Katya, a forensic scientist who is not only beautiful but also Othman's fiancee.See the full content of this document
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In the course of his investigation, as well as discovering what happened to Nouf, Nayir learns of his own need for a woman in his life and how that ...
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