As their partnership leads to surprising revelations, it also challenges Nayir, bringing him face to face with his desire for female companionship and the limitations imposed by his beliefs. Shocked by the idea of a woman baring her face and working in public, Nayir realizes that to gain access to the hidden world of Saudi women, he will have to join forces with Katya Hijazi, a lab worker at the coroner's office. Finding Nouf is an intriguing, often suspenseful murder mystery set against the backdrop of simmering generational differences in modern Saudi Arabian society. Now Nayir, a gentle and pious Palestinian living in Saudi Arabia, must delve into Nouf's secret life-no easy task in one of the world's most rigidly gender-segregated societies. Though her family is suspiciously uninterested in getting at the truth, Nayir is determined to find out what happened. When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing, her prominent family calls on Nayir al-Sharqi, a pious desert guide, to lead the search party.

But even more unsettling is that she died not of dehydration but from drowning. Finding Nouf is a riveting literary mystery and an unprecedented window into the lives of men and women in Saudi Arabia. The coroner determines that she was several weeks pregnant. Ten days later, Nouf's body is discovered. Finding Nouf: A Novel Hardcover Jby Zo Ferraris (Author) 522 ratings 3.8 on Goodreads 9,417 ratings Book 1 of 3: A Katya Hijazi and Nayir Sharqi Novel See all formats and editions Kindle 11.49 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. When sixteen-year-old Nouf ash-Shrawi goes missing, her prominent family calls on desert guide Nayir al-Sharqi to lead a search party. investigates the death of a pregnant Saudi teenager in a mystery that offers ' a fascinating glimpse into the workings.of Saudi society' ( Publishers Weekly). Zoë Ferraris’s electrifying debut of taut psychological suspense offers an unprecedented window into Saudi Arabia and the lives of men and women there.

Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris