Description
When Frances Shore joins her engineer husband in Jeddah, she expects an unfamiliar culture and an unsettled period abroad—but not a world where ordinary life is governed by secrecy, surveillance, and strict social boundaries. A cartographer by profession, Frances is accustomed to making sense of landscapes; yet Saudi Arabia proves increasingly resistant to her attempts to understand and navigate it. As tensions grow within the expatriate community and behind the walls of Ghazzah Street, she is drawn into a troubling mystery that challenges her assumptions about marriage, privilege, and belonging. With sharp psychological insight and an atmosphere of mounting unease, the novel explores cultural dislocation, isolation, and the limits of an outsider’s perspective.
Available Editions
paperback
Uitgeverij Atlas Contact
Published Jan 1, 2017
ISBN: 9789025449865
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Details
First Published
1988
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel.