In the Kingdom of Men
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品牌: Kim Barnes
基本信息出版社:Knopf (2012年5月29日)精装:336页正文语种:英语ISBN:0307273393条形码:9780307273390商品重量:526 gASIN:0307273393您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介Here is the first thing you need to know about me: I’m a barefoot girl from red-dirt Oklahoma, and all the marble floors in the world will never change that.
Here is the second thing: that young woman they pulled from the Arabian shore, her hair tangled with mangrove—my husband didn’t kill her, not the way they say he did.
1967. Gin Mitchell knows a better life awaits her when she marries hometown hero Mason McPhee. Raised in a two-room shack by her Oklahoma grandfather, a strict Methodist minister, Gin never believed that someone like Mason, a handsome college boy, the pride of Shawnee, would look her way. And nothing can prepare her for the world she and Mason step into when he takes a job with the Arabian American Oil company in Saudi Arabia. In the gated compound of Abqaiq, Gin and Mason are given a home with marble floors, a houseboy to cook their meals, and a gardener to tend the sandy patch out back. Even among the veiled women and strict laws ofshariah,Gin’s life has become the stuff of fairy tales. She buys her first swimsuit, she pierces her ears, and Mason gives her a glittering diamond ring. But when a young Bedouin woman is found dead, washed up on the shores of the Persian Gulf, Gin’s world closes in around her, and the one person she trusts is nowhere to be found.
Set against the gorgeously etched landscape of a country on the cusp of enormous change,In the Kingdom of Menabounds with sandstorms and locust swarms, shrimp peddlers, pearl divers, and Bedouin caravans—a luminous portrait of life in the desert. Award-winning author Kim Barnes weaves a mesmerizing, richly imagined tale of Americans out of their depth in Saudi Arabia, a marriage in peril, and one woman’s quest for the truth, no matter what it might cost her.
媒体推荐“A swashbuckling, thrilling ride of a book,In The Kingdom of Mentransports readers to the sands of Arabia and the recesses of the human heart. Ginny McPhee is a heroine unlike any other, negotiating love, politics, the intricacies of marriage, and the journey to selfhood. A vivid and compelling tale.” —Diana Abu-Jaber, author ofBirds of Paradise
“I was transfixed by Kim Barnes’s thoughtful, elegant account of a young American woman's experience of 1960s Saudi Arabia. It describes a piece of the world that seems utterly fresh, never-written-about, andIn the Kingdom of Men
brings it to vivid life. This is a historical novel which is not only romantic and dramatic and compelling, but has particular, important relevance to our current age.” —Dan Chaon, author ofStay AwakeandAwait Your Reply
“This is a mesmerizing novel, set in the American heartland and Saudi Arabia—two locations that on the face of it couldn't be more different. But from the point of view of a woman not allowed to be herself, the two places have startling similarities. We read, in part, to be taken elsewhere.In the Kingdom of Mensucceeds mightily in this. We also read because we enjoy good writing. You’ll find that in abundance here.” —Elizabeth Berg, author ofOnce Upon a Time, There Was You
“A great windswept adventure full of tension and suspense,In the Kingdom of Menismovingin the truest sense, sweeping the reader along with its gorgeous prose, a rich setting, and most of all, Gin McPhee, one of those rare characters who sits up on page one, grabs you and pulls you into her world.” —Jess Walter, author ofThe Financial Lives of the Poets
“This novel has it all: an intriguing story that thunders to a thrilling climax, characters who grab our hearts, gorgeous prose and a setting that stuns the reader at every turn. Arabia!” —Ellen Sussman, author ofFrench Lessons
“If you want to understand, right in your gut, the history of the American relationship with Saudi Arabia; if you want a magical, layered story of west-inside-east, culture layered over culture, and the slow--still ongoing--revolution of gender and race oppression,In the Kingdom of Menis your book. It's Mad MenmeetsThe Sheltering Sky, aRevolutionary Roadfor the oil-addicted. It's also an utter pleasure to read.” —Anthony Doerr, author ofMemory WallandAbout Grace
