by Zoë Ferraris · Harper Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780547237787
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«Finding Nouf» is the mystery novel by Zoë Ferraris, published by Harper Paperbacks in paperback (320 pages, in English).
When Nouf, a sixteen-year-old girl from a prominent Saudi Arabian family, disappears, her family asks desert guide Nayir al-Sharqi to lead the search. Ten days later, her body is found, but the autopsy reveals she didn't die of dehydration but was drowned. Nayir decides to find out what happened and, to access the female world, must ally with Katya Hijazi, a forensic laboratory worker. Together they investigate the secrets of a closed society.
First instalment of the Nayir Sharqi & Katya Hijazi series. It won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the ALA Alex Award, and was nominated for the Macavity Award.
Recommended for readers of crime fiction and literary fiction interested in a story set in contemporary Saudi Arabia.
Zoë Ferraris is an American novelist. She was born in Oklahoma. In 1991 she married a man from Saudi Arabia. She lived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with her in-laws for nine months. Her time in Saudi Arabia is the background for the three novels she has written. She has also written a children's novel.
