Finding Nouf

Name: Finding Nouf
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Zoe Ferraris
ISBN: 9781436185271

Author: Zoe Ferraris

Series: Katya Hijazi and Nayir Sharqi #1

Narrator: Pete Bradbury

Unabridged: 11 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/09/2009

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Zoe Ferraris' debut novel is hailed as a startling, richly textured work of the highest literary merit. Finding Nouf, 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.

About Zoe Ferraris

Zoë Ferraris has an M.F.A. from Columbia University and is the author of the novel Finding Nouf, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for First Fiction. She lives in San Francisco.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey

"A family buries a woman with her back to Mecca only when she carries a baby in her belly, a baby whose face, in death, must be turned in the direction of the Holy Mosque." When Nayir Sharqi is asked by his friend Othman Shrawi to find his missing sister, Nouf, he had no idea what he is getting into.......more

Goodreads review by Eryka

I loved this book, but for what I think are different reasons than the author intended. Or maybe not. It's a murder mystery as I'm sure you would gather from reading the book jacket. A girl goes missing and is found dead in the desert and some people are guessing foul play. Okay. Great. To me, howev......more