Title: Landing Author: Emma Donoghue Narrator: Laura Hicks Publication Year: 2007 Pages: 336 (audio length: 11 hours 26 minutes) Genre: Fiction Source: Audiobook version purchased from Audible.com From the cover: A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, Landing is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships — [...]
Title: The Silent Minaret Author: Ishtiyaq Shukri Publication Year: 2007 Pages: 248 Genre: Fiction Source: Purchased from an independent bookstore in Hermanus, South Africa From the cover: Who knew Issa Shamsuddin? Is his disappearance a matter of choice – the next step in a journey of self-imposed exile? Or are there more sinister forces at [...]
Title: Woman At Point Zero Author: Nawal El-Saadawi Translator: Sherif Hetata Publication Year: 2007 (originally published in Arabic in 1975; first published in English in 1983) Pages: 152 Genre: Fiction Source: Purchased from Kinokunya at the Emirates Festival of Literature From the cover: ‘However, every single man I did get to know filled me with [...]
Title: Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil Author: Deborah Rodriguez (with Kristin Ohlson) Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Publication Year: 2007 Pages: 320 (audio length: 8 hours 58 minutes) Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir Source: Audiobook version purchased from Audible.com From the cover: Most Westerners working in Afghanistan spend their time tucked inside a military [...]
