{"product_id":"9781399815277","title":"Gulf","description":"Author(s): Ogrodnik, Mo, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 08\/05\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 432 pages, n\/a,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: John Murray Press,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945),\u003cbr\u003e Dimensions: 241 x 165 x 36\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\/EAN\/SKU: 9781399815277\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'INSTANTLY GRIPPING' JENNIFER EGANThe lives of five women collide in the Arabian Gulf as each looks for a way to rewrite their future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Dounia, a young Saudi finds herself alienated and alone as she prepares for motherhood in an air-conditioned mansion in the middle of the desert.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e After losing her home and baby in a natural disaster, Flora does the unthinkable and leaves her surviving child in the Philippines to become an overseas domestic worker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Pushed by her family to marry a jihadist, Zeinah, a Syrian woman finds herself joining the city's morality police.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Justine uproots her progressive New York family to curate an exhibit in Abu Dhabi, where she must reckon with her ethical limitations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e And Eskedare, a spirited and defiant Ethiopian teenager, flees an arranged marriage to search for her friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe consequences of their meetings are devastating and profound as they all discover how far they're willing to go in order to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with unsettling intimacy and fierce empathy, GULF is a blazingly powerful and original novel about cruelty, rebellion and resilience. Most of all it's about the power of hope.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ogrodnik, Mo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55165529260418,"sku":"9781399815277","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2180\/9347\/files\/9781399815277.jpg?v=1745927213","url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.live\/products\/9781399815277","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}