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

By:

HÌ£aÌrithiÌ, JuÌkhah [author.]

Contributor(s):

Booth, Marilyn [translator.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781912240166

Subject(s):

Sisters Sisters -- Oman -- Fiction. -- Fiction

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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	SPAA Library General Collection	On Shelves	PJ7928.R58 S2813 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	0002726

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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