Bøger af Bothayna Al-Essa

The Guardian of Surfaces is a warning call and a love letter to stories and the delicious act of losing oneself in them.

"The new book censor hasn't slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that would make a book unfit to publish--allusions to queerness, unapproved religions, any mention of life before the Revolution. By night the characters of literary classics crowd his dreams, and pilfered novels pile up in the house he shares with his wife and daughter. As the siren song of forbidden reading continues to beckon, he descends into a netherworld of resistance fighters, undercover booksellers, and outlaw librarians trying to save their history and culture."--Provided by publisher.

A courageous young woman from the Gulf must overcome conservatism and oppression from her own family to live and love as she chooses