Sex and lies : true stories of women's intimate lives in the Arab world
(2020)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
306.7097/SLIMANI,L
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[New York] : Penguin Books, 2020
DESCRIPTION
xi, 162 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780143133766, 0143133764 :, 9780143133766
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Leila Slimani was in her native Morocco promoting her novel Adèle, about a woman addicted to sex, when she began meeting women who confided the dark secrets of their sexual lives. In Morocco, adultery, abortion, homosexuality, prostitution, and sex outside of marriage are all punishable by law, and women have only two choices: They can be wives or virgins. Sex and Lies combines vivid, often harrowing testimonies with Slimani's passionate and intelligent commentary to make a galvanizing case for a sexual revolution in the Arab world"--
Translated from French