Celestial bodies : a novel
Alharthi, Jokha
Celestial bodies : a novel / Jokha Alharthi ; translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth. - New York : Catapult , c2010, 2019 - xi, 243 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
First published in Oman in 2010.
Includes a bibliographical reference (page xi).
In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool ... against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving from a traditional, slave-owning society into its complex present.
Translated from Arabic.
English
Winner of the 2019 Man Booker international prize.
9781948226943 (paperback)
Sisters---Fiction
Literary ----Fiction
Family life----Fiction
Women----Fiction
Manners and customs---Fiction
Oman---Fiction
Historical fiction
Domestic fiction
PJ7928.R58 / S2813 2019
FIC ALH
Celestial bodies : a novel / Jokha Alharthi ; translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth. - New York : Catapult , c2010, 2019 - xi, 243 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
First published in Oman in 2010.
Includes a bibliographical reference (page xi).
In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool ... against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving from a traditional, slave-owning society into its complex present.
Translated from Arabic.
English
Winner of the 2019 Man Booker international prize.
9781948226943 (paperback)
Sisters---Fiction
Literary ----Fiction
Family life----Fiction
Women----Fiction
Manners and customs---Fiction
Oman---Fiction
Historical fiction
Domestic fiction
PJ7928.R58 / S2813 2019
FIC ALH
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