| Author: | Raja'a Alem |
| Pub Date: | 2010 |
| Language: | Arabic |
| Publisher: | Arab Cultural Center in Casablanca |
| Genre: | Novel |
The Dove's Necklace is a novel written by Saudi writer Raja'a Alem.[1] The novel was first released in 2010 by the Arab Cultural Center in Casablanca. She was jointly awarded the 2011 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.[2] [3]
The Dove's Necklace is a Hejazi novel set in Mecca. The reality of this novel is an organic mix of history, current state, fiction or fantasy; the characters of the novel are a combination of people with flesh, blood and others are fictional; and the main narrator is neither the writer nor one of the human characters in her novel, but it is the street of "Abu-Russians" in "Old Mecca", where most of her characters reside.[4]