num_pages: 176
description: The first work of non-fiction in English from the prize-winning and internationally bestselling author of Lullaby and Adle.In these essays Leila Slimani gives voice to young Moroccan women who are grappling with a conservative Arab culture that at once condemns and commodifies sex. In a country where the law punishes and outlaws all forms of sex outside marriage as well as homosexuality and prostitution women have only two options for their sexual identities: virgin or wife. Sex and Lies is an essential confrontation with Morocco's intimate demons and a vibrant appeal for the universal freedom to be to love and to desire.
language: English
title: Sex and Lies
publisher: Faber & Faber