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Gulf
(Hardback)
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Gulf
Contributors:
By (Author) Mo Ogrodnik
Publisher:
John Murray Press
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publication Date:
12th August 2025
UK Publication Date:
8th May 2025
Country:
United Kingdom
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Family life fiction
Dewey:
813.6
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
432
Dimensions:
Width 158mm, Height 236mm, Spine 44mm
Weight:
642g
Description
'INSTANTLY GRIPPING' JENNIFER EGAN
The lives of five women collide in the Arabian Gulf as each looks for a way to rewrite their future. Dounia, a young Saudi finds herself alienated and alone as she prepares for motherhood in an air-conditioned mansion in the middle of the desert. After losing her home and baby in a natural disaster, Flora does the unthinkable and leaves her surviving child in the Philippines to become an overseas domestic worker. Pushed by her family to marry a jihadist, Zeinah, a Syrian woman finds herself joining the city's morality police. Justine uproots her progressive New York family to curate an exhibit in Abu Dhabi, where she must reckon with her ethical limitations. And Eskedare, a spirited and defiant Ethiopian teenager, flees an arranged marriage to search for her friend. The consequences of their meetings are devastating and profound as they all discover how far they're willing to go in order to survive. Written with unsettling intimacy and fierce empathy, GULF is a blazingly powerful and original novel about cruelty, rebellion and resilience. Most of all it's about the power of hope.Reviews
GULF is instantly gripping: a hurtling, sensory plunge into the lives of women in crisis whose worlds come to overlap in unexpected ways. Mo Ogrodnik is a gifted, arresting newcomer to the literary landscape. -- Jennifer Egan, author of THE CANDY HOUSE
Author Bio
Mo Ogrodnik is a filmmaker, writer, and professor in the film department at NYU. She served as the associate dean of the arts for NYU in Abu Dhabi and as a mentor for the Sundance Labs in Jordan. Gulf is her first novel.
