Publisher's Synopsis
Set against the backdrop of modern Saudi Arabia, Deception by Abeer Al Ali, tells the story of Salem, a young Bedouin boy coming of age and struggling with the constraints of tradition in a rapidly changing world, growing up as camels make way for tractors and trucks, and the digital world comes to the fore. Travelling back and forth in time, the narrative is knitted around Salem's forbidden love for Khuloud, unhappily married to an older man from whom she wants a divorce. Or so it seems …
