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boston: houghton mifflin & co, 1971. Hard cover. Good in fair dust jacket. Signed by author. signed by author. 275 p. At the Drop of a Veil: Marianne Alireza-SIGNED BY; AUTHOR-HARDCOVER-Marianne Alireza (Author)-CONDITION GOOD-DJ FAIR-SIGNED BY AUTHOR-COPYRIGHT1971 11TH PRINTING-275 PAGES-PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO, BOSTON This review is from: At the Drop of a Veil (Hardcover) This book tells the tale of Marianne Alireza, an American college student who married a Saudi citizen in 1943. In 1945, Alireza moved to Jeddah with her husband and infant daughter, and from there witnessed Arabian lifestyle firsthand for 12 years. She describes her experiences as part of the Alireza harem, composed of her mother-in-law, 2 sisters-in-law and their various children, of which Marianne herself eventually had 5. Alireza discusses how the family traveled to the mountains of Ethiopia to escape the summer heat in Jeddah, and how development changed all of their lives. She also details the events that led to the end of her marriage, and how she abducted her children from their school in Switzerland. The details of this book make it invaluable for anyone wanting to learn about living conditions for women in affluent Saudi Arabia in the 1940s and 50s. The story of Alireza's marriage and its demise should also serve as a warning to any Western woman considering marrying a Muslim. Under Islamic law, a Muslim man is usually granted sole custody of his (weaned) children following divorce and a Western woman who is divorced from a Middle Eastern Muslim man stands a very high chance of never being allowed to see her children again. From the man's point of view, his child custody rights are guaranteed by God, and he would be devastated to lose his children. It was exactly this sort of situation which put Marianne in the position where she felt she had no choice but to abduct her children and try to escape back to the States. All marriages these days face a relatively high risk of divorce, but cross-cultural marriages bring added stress and tend to have even higher divorce rates than marriages within a culture. Thus, a Western woman who decides to marry a foreign Muslim man is entering into a situation where there is a 1 in 2 chance of divorce, and if divorce does happen, she has an extremely high chance of losing her children forever. And this is true no matter how happily the marriage starts off, as it happened in Marianne's case. Interestingly, a quick 2001 Web search for Marianne's children turned up a traveler's note stating that all 5 of her children decided to return to Saudi Arabia upon reaching adulthood

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Near fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed 'For Judith Sandoval, many, many thanks' by the author on the title page. Stated 1st edition, no numberline (1st printing). Dust jacket is as new except for a tiny nick at one corner. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 544 p. Audience: General/trade. Book has some faint discoloration to the front of the pageblock. An exploration of the American experience of race. Malcomson is an editor at The New York Times Magazine, an adviser to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the author of 'Generation's End: A Personal Memoir of American Power After 9/11' and 'Empire's Edge'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

Ex Machina Pub Co, 1994. Soft Cover. Good. Signed and dated by author on title page****Book shows moderate wear/ pages clean/ covers slightly creased; moderate edge wear/ spine cracked-all pages attached/ corners and spine hinge creased/ several page tips creased

Sharp's American debut introduces Charlie Fox, a bodyguard, whose first job watching a fifteen year old son of a wealthy computer exec blows up in her face.This copy is EX-LIB with a very limited borrowing history, with the usual stamps and labels. It is signed by Sharp on the title page, is a first printing and has no remainder markings. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for shipping.

Measures approximately 7.25 x 9.25 inches. Dust jacket has a couple of short tears, light edge wear, and light rubbing. Price-clipped. Jacket is in a new protective Brodart cover. Boards are in fine condition with little to no wear. Pages are clean and crisp. Inscribed "With the compliments of the author ("co-") Helen G. Trager" on one of the first free end pages. Very good to excellent condition.

Signed. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED; Signed by author with date on title page. Very Good in Very Good unclipped dust jacket. Gently used with NO markings in text; binding is tight. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Signed by author on title page

First US edition first printing of the fourth novel in the Charlie Fox series. SIGNED by the author on the title page. In fine / fine unread condition. Language: eng 0.0