-Striking.- ELLE France
-Brave.- iNews
-Powerful.- TLS
-Urgent.- Evening Standard
-Original.- Cosmopolitan
In these essays, Le- 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.
-Le- Slimani has a knack for breaking taboos. . . Sex and Lies is well executed: the novelist paints vivid portraits of her interviewees.- The Times
-Slimani trusts in her outrage, in the force of her own voice, and the voices of the wome
