by Norma Khouri · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401305313
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«Honor Perdido» is Norma Khouri's chronicle, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (232 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Amman (Jordan), the book follows Dalia, a Muslim woman who, along with her friend Norma, tries to gain independence by opening a hair salon. When Dalia falls in love with Michael, a Catholic military man, that forbidden relationship clashes with the religious and honor codes of her community and ends in tragedy.
The work was revealed as a literary fraud: the author admitted to having invented the events she narrates.
For readers interested in the Middle East, the situation of women in conservative societies and honor killings.
