Gulf

These are the women whose stories you never hear. Dounia, a young Saudi mother finds herself alienated as she prepares for motherhood in an air-conditioned box in the middle of the desert, surrounded by construction and yet completely isolated. Flora, after losing everything in a natural disaster, feels she must do the unthinkable: leave her surviving child behind in the Philippines as she departs to become an overseas domestic worker . Zeinah, a Syrian woman who has been pushed by her family to marry a jihadist, finds herself joining the city''s morality police . Justine uproots her progressive New York family when she''s tapped to curate an exhibit in Abu Dhabi , where she must reckon with her moral and ethical limitations. And Eskedare, a spirited and defiant Ethiopian teenager, flees a dreaded arranged marriage to search for her only friend, only to find her dreams dead-end in the Gulf. Written with unsettling intimacy and determined empathy, GULF is a book about cruelty, rebellion, resilience - and hope. It asks the question: how far would you go in order to survive?

About the author

Mo Ogrodnik

Product details

• Authors: Mo Ogrodnik
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.05.2025
• EAN: 9781399815277
• ISBN: 978-1-399-81527-7
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 44 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Middle East, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary