Saudi Arabia is the setting - and, you might say, a character - in the new novel by Saudi author Yousef Al-Mohaimeed. The book is called "Wolves of the Crescent Moon."

Yousef Al-Mohaimeed

Its main human characters are outcasts. Each is missing a part of his body -- and a part of his life. And each seems to be of no concern to the larger society. Al-Mohaimeed's novel has been published in the United States. But it was banned in Saudi Arabia. Al-Mohaimeed says he knew it would be.