Nieuw boek over Jemen

Boekenbonnen gekregen van de Sint of Kerstman? Er is net een herdruk verschenen van een nieuwe roman (2005) die zich afspeelt in Jemen:

"When Vivien Quish arrives in the mystical city of Sanaa, she hopes to redeem her ruined dream of being a great traveller. The last thing she expects is to become embroiled in a passionate affair. And the last thing she needs is to fall in love?
Vivien's mind is overflowing with stories about Yemen, land of the mythical Queen of Sheba. But try as she might, she just cannot stop herself falling for charismatic anthropologist Christian Linklater.
Though Christian doesn't know it, their lives are already entangled, and Vivien is sure they can have no future together.
In the stinging heart of the Yemeni desert the two great love affairs of Vivien's life - with a man and with a country - are challenged to their limits and she must rediscover the spirit she thought she had lost as a very young woman. But it is only when Christian is in danger of being a victim of the clash between east and west, on the eve of the Iraq War, that she is finally forced to stop playing it safe.
Like Nowhere Else is a beguiling and compelling story about a woman dismantling her past in order to chose her future."

Recensie van Al-Bab.com (de Brits-Jemenitische gemeenschap):

I was asked to look at this one because it was set primarily in Yemen. I was a little wary, as I do not normally read romantic fiction. However, I felt drawn into the book from the start. The author, the daughter of an Irish diplomat, knows Yemen well and her descriptions of its scenery and atmosphere fully reflect this. For me, the love story became just a thread to connect all the sights, smells and feelings which the country evokes.
Her observant eye notes the men waiting outside Bab al-Yemen with their paint rollers, and the changing colours of Jabal Nuqum, and to anyone who has visited Yemen her vivid descriptions of people and places will bring back nostalgic memories.
I would therefore thoroughly recommend Like Nowhere Else for the picture it paints of Yemen – and if you enjoy love stories then here you have an added bonus!

Het schijnt als verhaal zelf een spannend boek te zijn, met veel onverwachte wendingen. Onder andere te koop via Bol.com en Amazon UK.