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THE PACT WE MADE tells the story of Dahlia who is staring down the barrel of her thirtieth birthday, the age when a Kuwaiti woman from a good family is past her prime marrying years. Dahlia straddles two worlds: one in which she's a modern woman living in a modern city, and another where she can't have male friends, or leave the country without her father's consent. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The novel jumps backwards & forwards in time, so that you don't discover her past at once, it appears through different episodes that gradually piece together to make a coherrent whole. It is a really good attempt to produce a story against the background of a very different cultural norm. Dahlia's society and familial expectations are not those I grew up in, and yet I can recognise those pressure and feel for Dahlia and her need to be herself, and not just something that she is being straitjacketed into being. It's powerful and moving. It is also worth mentioning that this is the second novel I've read this month where there is abuse and that while it is not described in explicit detail, there is sufficient detail and trauma that some people may find this upsetting. I think ti should be read regardless, we don't lve in a perfect world and acknowledging suffering is a step to understanding. ( )