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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Catapult, 2019Copyright date: ©2018Description: xi, 243 pages : illustration ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781912240166
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 892.7/37 23
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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First published in Oman in 2010.

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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.

Winner of the 2019 Man Booker international prize.

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