{"product_id":"the-consequences-of-love-a-novel","title":"The Consequences of Love: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Romeo and Juliet story set against the strict Muslim laws of Saudi Arabia  Sulaiman Addonias astonishing debut novel is a sensuous and intensely wrought story of a young immigrant and a girl behind a veil who defy law and risk their lives to be together.  Under a relentless summer sun  women dressed like long dark shadows and men decked out in light cotton robes roam the streets of Jeddah. While most of Nasers friends have left town to escape the heat  he must stay behind to work. An African immigrant and outsider  Naser spends his spare time frequenting a friends caf  writing letters to his mother in Eritrea  and daydreaming about the glamorous girlfriend he hopes to one day have.  Naser and his younger brother were sent to Saudi Arabia to avoid the war back home  but though they live with their conservative Muslim uncle they remain under the watchful  wrathful eyes of the religious police  who monitor the communitys every action  govern the near indestructible boundaries between men and womenwalls in mosques  panels on buses  separate visiting quarters in houses  and  of course  the black veil  or abaya  that adorns the womenand punish any disobedience by public beating or death.  But a splash of color arrives in Nasers world when unexpectedly a small piece of paper is dropped at his feet. It is a love note from a girl whose face he has never seen and whose voice he has never heard. To identify her among the sea of veiled women  she instructs him to look for a pair of pink shoes peeking out from under her draped abaya. Intrigued and encouraged  Naser rebels against Wahhabist Islamic convention and begins a clandestine correspondence with the girl. Yet even as the barriers that divide them begin to crumble under the weight of their passionate prose and devotion  the lovers illicit affair will face the ultimate and most heartrending test.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44963334488117,"sku":"ByrdShop_1400067995","price":26.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781400067992.jpg?v=1770412370","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-consequences-of-love-a-novel","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}