The Consequences of Love by Sulaiman Addonia

A secret romance challenges the boundaries of fear

Good Condition - with scuffed and scratched covers, edge rubbing and minor corner wear. Pages appear generally clean.

Naser, a young African immigrant living in Jeddah, spends his days working, missing his mother and imagining a life less restricted by loneliness. His world changes when a veiled young woman leaves a note telling him that she wants to know him. Recognisable by her pink shoes, she begins an exchange of letters that gives both of them a private space for longing and hope. In the strict social environment surrounding them, however, even companionship between an unmarried man and woman can attract dangerous attention. As their connection deepens, the desire to meet becomes inseparable from the risk of discovery. Sulaiman Addonia’s debut novel explores love, exile and the vulnerability of outsiders, following two people whose search for tenderness becomes an act of defiance.