Celestial Bodies: Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2019 by Jokha Alharthi


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Sandstone Press Ltd SKU: SNG8560
ISBN: 9781912240166
AUTHOR: Jokha Alharthi
FORMAT: Paperback - NEW BOOK
TYPE: SVIR
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Man Booker International Prize; Translated fiction ; literary; Oman; Arabic; Gulf author

Winner of The best Omani novel, 2010

Celestial Bodies is set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, where we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries Abdallah after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla who rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families witness Oman evolve from a traditional, slave-owning society slowly redefining itself after the colonial era, to the crossroads of its complex present. Elegantly structured and taut, Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring of a novel, telling of Oman's coming-of-age through the prism of one family's losses and loves.

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