Sex and Lies
True Stories of Women's Intimate Lives in the Arab World
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"Jaw-dropping.... Inspiring.... A haunting and beautifully composed book.... It blew my mind." (Lisa Taddeo, number one New York Times best-selling author of Three Women)
A fearless exposé of the secrets and lies of women's intimate lives, by the best-selling author of The Perfect Nanny, Adèle, and In the Country of Others
"All those in positions of authority—politicians, parents, teachers—maintain the same line: 'Do what you like, but do it in private.'"
Leila Slimani was in her native Morocco promoting her novel Adèle, about a woman addicted to sex, when she began meeting women who confided the dark secrets of their sexual lives. In Morocco, adultery, abortion, homosexuality, prostitution, and sex outside of marriage are all punishable by law, and women have only two choices: They can be wives or virgins. Sex and Lies combines vivid, often harrowing testimonies with Slimani's passionate and intelligent commentary to make a galvanizing case for a sexual revolution in the Arab world.
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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A literary critique of Russian lit.
- De Amazon Customer en 04-15-16
De: Azar Nafisi
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Death in Her Hands
- A Novel
- De: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Lee
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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While on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded woods, a woman comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground by stones. "Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body." But there is no dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area, alone after the death of her husband, and she knows no one. Becoming obsessed with solving this mystery, our narrator imagines who Magda was and how she met her fate.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Omg get ON with it
- De Nicole Dreyfus en 06-24-20
De: Ottessa Moshfegh
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The Days of Abandonment
- De: Elena Ferrante
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 616
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 614
An IndiBound best seller, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its Italian public when first published. It is the gripping story of a woman's descent into devastating emptiness after being abandoned by her husband, with two young children to care for. When she finds herself literally trapped within the four walls of their high-rise apartment, she is forced to confront her ghosts, the potential loss of her own identity, and the possibility that life may never return to normal.
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4 out of 5 stars
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D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
- De Margaret M. Cranston en 01-18-16
De: Elena Ferrante
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The Woman Destroyed
- De: Simone De Beauvoir
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
One of the most influential thinkers of her generation draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times). Suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes The Age of Discretion, The Monologue, and The Woman Destroyed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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writing
- De Anjna Singh en 04-27-25
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A Girl's Story
- De: Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 4 h y 6 m
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In A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux revisits a night 50 years earlier when she found herself submerged and controlled by another person's desire and willpower. It was the summer of 1958, the year she turned 18, and the man she had given herself to had moved on. She'd submitted her will to his and then found that she was a slave without a master.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A memoir done in a very entrancing style
- De BBWrighter en 12-21-24
De: Annie Ernaux, y otros
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The Argonauts
- De: Maggie Nelson
- Narrado por: Maggie Nelson
- Duración: 4 h y 48 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,238
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Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, is an intimate portrayal of the complexities and joys of (queer) family making.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A relaxing meditation on identity, gender and art
- De redhidari en 10-01-15
De: Maggie Nelson
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
- A Memoir in Books
- De: Azar Nafisi
- Narrado por: Azar Nafisi
- Duración: 17 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 465
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 402
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 399
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A literary critique of Russian lit.
- De Amazon Customer en 04-15-16
De: Azar Nafisi
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A Woman Is No Man
- A Novel
- De: Etaf Rum
- Narrado por: Ariana Delawari, Dahlia Salem, Susan Nezami
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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Three generations of Palestinian-American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this powerful debut - a heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue, courage, and betrayal that will resonate with women from all backgrounds, giving voice to the silenced and agency to the oppressed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful and Terrifying
- De Emmst51 en 05-04-19
De: Etaf Rum
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Enter Ghost
- De: Isabella Hammad
- Narrado por: Nadia Albina
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with an established director, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine to visit her older sister Haneen. Though the siblings grew up spending summers at their family home in Haifa, Sonia hasn't been back since the second intifada and the deaths of her grandparents. While Haneen stayed and made a life commuting to Tel Aviv to teach at the university, Sonia remained in London to focus on her burgeoning acting career and now dissolute marriage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De Elizabeth en 02-07-25
De: Isabella Hammad
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In the Dream House
- A Memoir
- De: Carmen Maria Machado
- Narrado por: Carmen Maria Machado
- Duración: 5 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,714
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,481
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In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it's that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope - the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Devastatingly Beautiful
- De SeattleBookLover en 02-04-20
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Assembly
- De: Natasha Brown
- Narrado por: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Duración: 1 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 217
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The narrator of Assembly is a Black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend’s family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can’t escape the question: Is it time to take it all apart?
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1 out of 5 stars
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HATED IT
- De valerie en 09-24-21
De: Natasha Brown
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Still Born
- De: Guadalupe Nettel, Rosalind Harvey - translator
- Narrado por: Rachel Schwab
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
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Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic decision to have her tubes tied. But when she announces this to her friend, she learns that Alina has made the opposite decision and is preparing to have a child of her own.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The title
- De valeria en 10-17-24
De: Guadalupe Nettel, y otros
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Biography of X
- A Novel
- De: Catherine Lacey
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 61
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When X—an iconoclastic artist and shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow CM, wild with grief, hurls herself into writing X's biography. Though X was recognized as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. In CM's quest to unravel it, she opens a Pandora’s box of secrets and destruction. All the while, she immerses herself in the history of the Southern Territory, a fascist theocracy that split from the rest of the country after World War II, as it is finally, in the present day, forced into an uneasy reunification.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Worst book I’ve ever read
- De Rebecca en 11-09-23
De: Catherine Lacey
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Recollections of My Nonexistence
- A Memoir
- De: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrado por: Rebecca Solnit
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher, and of the small apartment that, when she was 19, became the home in which she transformed herself. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Observant, organized, and real...
- De Jesse Rolfer en 03-25-20
De: Rebecca Solnit
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Study for Obedience
- A Novel
- De: Sarah Bernstein
- Narrado por: Sarah Bernstein
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 24
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A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed with some intensity at her and she senses a mounting threat that lies 'just beyond the garden gate.'
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5 out of 5 stars
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Took some time to come around, but I really appreciate this work
- De Amy G en 08-08-24
De: Sarah Bernstein
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Doppelganger
- A Trip into the Mirror World
- De: Naomi Klein
- Narrado por: Naomi Klein
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 785
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you’d devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience—she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Elite Psychobabble
- De A Reviewer en 09-30-23
De: Naomi Klein
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Bunny
- A Novel
- De: Mona Awad
- Narrado por: Sophie Amoss
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,861
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,614
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 1,610
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort—a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny", and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon"....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Chuck Palahniuk in Pearls and Ballet Flats
- De Arlis Dorne en 06-29-19
De: Mona Awad
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
- A Novel
- De: Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
- Narrado por: Beata Pozniak
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,240
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,936
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,930
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then, a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon, other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Narrator - Authentic as it can get!
- De Chris en 09-03-19
De: Olga Tokarczuk, y otros
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I Who Have Never Known Men
- De: Jacqueline Harpman
- Narrado por: Nikki Massoud
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 836
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Deep underground, 39 women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the 40th prisoner—sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others’ escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WOW, a powerful performance and an incredible book
- De Audible Listener en 09-18-23
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Sex and Lies
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- Sydney
- 05-22-23
slay
I also read the French version and I feel like the translator took some liberties, but nonetheless a very moving collection of stories.
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Total5 out of 5 stars
- Tareq
- 05-07-22
Insightful
Realistic and enjoyable describing personal lives, social and political challenges in Morocco. Also somewhat characteristic of the Arab world.
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- Alexandru
- 05-26-21
Necessary book
While there are many feminist books in the West, outside this cultural area there is complete emptiness. I am from Romania and many of the things the author describes are true for Eastern Europe as well. Otherwise, indeed, the book could have been better, especially in the research area. But it is difficult to find fault with Ms. Slimani - she made a generous effort.
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