'Adama' Tells of a Saudi's Coming of Age

NPR | By Alan Cheuse

Published December 23, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

The novel Adama relates a teenager's impressions of Saudi Arabia in the 1960s and 70s as he transforms from home boy to questioning intellectual. Author Turki al-Hamad's book, first published in 1998, has been banned in several Middle Eastern countries; it is al-Hamad's first work to be translated into English. Alan Cheuse has a review.

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