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Road to Madina

Alaa Alghamdi

出版	Lulu Press, Incorporated, 2013-03
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / Women
ISBN	13007418059781300741800
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Vk5PmwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Set in Madina, Saudi Arabia and Leeds, U.K, the novel tells the story of a young Saudi woman, Maryam, who somewhat reluctantly decides to pursue postgraduate studies in Leeds. Her hesitation stems from the fact that she is a devout and traditional person, deeply dedicated to her Muslim faith, and is initially ambivalent about leaving the world she has always known. However, encouraged by her mother, an academic who also studied and lived in the West, she ventures to this new place and encounters both enriching experiences and a sense of displacement. Her sojourn in the West leads to a new set of decisions to be made. The novel follows Maryam from the age of 22, when she is deciding to apply to study in Leeds, to her eventual return to Saudi Arabia several years later.