'Written with a wry, lively intelligence, intellectual curiosity and a passionate lyrical style, the novel['s] ... claustrophobic setting and exquisite eroticism simultaneously drain and exhilarate.' Guardian

'A compelling adventure of erotic desire and painful guilt. Lyrical and otherworldly.' The Big Issue

'Opens a door into one of the darkest and least-known corners of this society and the view is revelatory, sometimes shocking, always compelling. ' The Financial Times

'The Others signals the arrival of a serious prose stylist ... Siba al Harez writes of the body, and its architecture of desire, in a manner that recalls the work of the American novelist Nicole Krauss. ... it is at its most radical not when the plot dives under the sheets but rather when the author calls attention to the delineation of difference, in the physical body, but moreover, in the body politic.' The National

'Written with a wry, lively intelligence, intellectual curiosity and a passionate lyrical style, the novel['s] ... claustrophobic setting and exquisite eroticism simultaneously drain and exhilarate.' Guardian

'A compelling adventure of erotic desire and painful guilt. Lyrical and otherworldly.' The Big Issue

'Opens a door into one of the darkest and least-known corners of this society and the view is revelatory, sometimes shocking, always compelling. ' The Financial Times

'Siba al-Harez creates a sensual and erotic parallel reality that is at once logical, poetic, surprising … what emerges is an authentic, tortured eroticism.' Vanity Fair, Italy

'This could be the most controversial novel to emerge in our times, not just from Saudi Arabia, but from the whole of the Arab world.' Al Hayat

'There is no doubt that this new novel written will cause as big a sensation in the literary world as The Girls of Riyadh.' Asharq Al Awsat

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