Finding Nouf [WorldCat Entities]

"Finding nouf"@it
"Finding Nouf"@pl

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"Die junge Nouf, Tochter aus gutem Haus, ist tot. Ertrunken. Mitten im endlosen Sandmeer der saudi-arabischen Wüste. In einem Wadi, das schon seit Monaten kein Wasser mehr geführt hat ... (Quelle: Buchdeckel verso)."
"Tres días antes de su boda, Nouf Shrawi, hija de una de las familias más influyentes de Arabia Saudita, desaparece. Diez días después, encuentran en el desierto el cadáver de la joven de apenas 16 años. La autopsia revela que estaba embarazada de varias semanas y que la causa de la muerte fue la deshidratación. Nayir al-Sharqui, guía del desierto que participó en la búsqueda de Nouf, no parece muy convencido con la versión oficial de los hechos. Alentado por Othman, hermanastro de Nouf, Nayir decide seguir por su cuenta con la investigación. Para ello contará con la inestimable ayuda de Katya, empleada en la oficina del forense: gracias a ella conseguirá adentrarse en el velado mundo femenino de los países islámicos."
"Zoë Ferraris's electrifying debut of taut psychological suspense offers an unprecedented window into Saudi Arabia and the lives of men and women there. When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing, along with a truck and her favorite camel, her prominent family calls on Nayir al-Sharqi, a desert guide, to lead a search party. Ten days later, just as Nayir is about to give up in frustration, her body is discovered by anonymous desert travelers. But when the coroner?s office determines that Nouf died not of dehydration but from drowning, and her family seems suspiciously uninterested in getting at the truth, Nayir takes it upon himself to find out what really happened to her. This mission will push gentle, hulking, pious Nayir, a Palestinian orphan raised by his bachelor uncle, to delve into the secret life of a rich, protected teenage girl -- in one of the most rigidly gender-segregated of Middle Eastern societies. Initially horrified at the idea of a woman bold enough to bare her face and to work in public, Nayir soon realizes that if he wants to gain access to the hidden world of women, he will have to join forces with Katya Hijazi, a lab worker at the coroner?s office. Their partnership challenges Nayir, bringing him face to face with his desire for female companionship and the limitations imposed by his beliefs. It also ultimately leads them both to surprising revelations. Fast-paced and utterly transporting, Finding Nouf offers an intimate glimpse inside a closed society and a riveting literary mystery."@en
"In der saudi-arabischen Wüste wird die Leiche eines Mädchens gefunden. Seltsamerweise scheint sie ertrunken zu sein. Bald stellt sich heraus, dass sie schwanger war. Ein Skandal. Die Ermittlungen erweisen sich als schwierig, in einer Welt voller Tabus."
"Een Saoedi-Arabische woestijngids wordt door een vriend, geadopteerde zoon van een rijke familie die veel invloed heeft in het strengreligieuze Jedda, gevraagd de verdwijning van zijn 16-jarige zus te onderzoeken."
"Een Saoedi-Arabische woestijngids wordt door een vriend, de geadopteerde zoon van een rijke familie die veel invloed heeft in het strengreligieuze Jedda, gevraagd de verdwijning van zijn 16-jarige zus te onderzoeken."
"Nouf, a 16-year-old girl who disappeared in the Saudi Arabian desert three days before her marriage, has been found dead, several weeks pregnant. Palestinian Nayir al-Sharqi, a desert guide involved in the search for her, investigates the case and concludes that someone within the girl's influential family has something to hide. With the help of Katya, an employee in the forensics office, he is able to get information about the veiled world of women in Islamic countries and about the assumptions of Saudi society."
"When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing and is found drowned in the desert outside Jeddah, Nayir--a desert guide hired by her prominent family to search for her--feels compelled to find out what really happened."@en
"When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing and is found drowned in the desert outside Jeddah, Nayir--a desert guide hired by her prominent family to search for her--feels compelled to find out what really happened."
"Ferraris' novel, set in Saudi Arabia, features desert guide Nayir al-Sharqi, who is hired by wealthy friends to find their missing daughter. When the girl turns up dead, apparently drowned in a flash flood in the desert, Nayir suspects that all is not as it seems. And as he looks into her death, he develops an uncomfortable partnership with a female technician at the local coroner's office."
"Ferraris' novel, set in Saudi Arabia, features desert guide Nayir al-Sharqi, who is hired by wealthy friends to find their missing daughter. When the girl turns up dead, apparently drowned in a flash flood in the desert, Nayir suspects that all is not as it seems. And as he looks into her death, he develops an uncomfortable partnership with a female technician at the local coroner's office."@en