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Celestial bodies : a novel / Jokha Alharthi ; translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth.

By:

Alharthi, Jokha

Contributor(s):

Booth, Marilyn

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Catapult , c2010, 2019Description: xi, 243 pages : illustration ; 21 cmISBN:

9781948226943 (paperback)

Uniform titles:

Sayyidat al-qamar . English

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

FIC ALH

LOC classification:

PJ7928.R58 S2813 2019

Awards:

Winner of the 2019 Man Booker international prize.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC ALH (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		017014

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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.