Celestial Bodies (Autor: Jokha Alharthi)
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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2019
‘A beautiful book, which teaches us a great deal about the swiftly changing relations between men and women and between the generations’ TLS
Set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, 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 beautifully written, Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring of a novel, telling of Oman’s coming-of-age through the prism of one family’s loves and losses.
‘A beautiful book, which teaches us a great deal about the swiftly changing relations between men and women and between the generations’ TLS
Set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, 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 beautifully written, Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring of a novel, telling of Oman’s coming-of-age through the prism of one family’s loves and losses.
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1000331BEN
EAN: 9781398541405
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Laoseis: 1
EAN: 9781398541405
Ühik: tk
Laoseis: 1
Jokha Alharthi is the author of ten works, including three collections of short fiction, two children’s books, and three novels in Arabic. Fluent in English, she completed a PhD in Classical Arabic Poetry in Edinburgh, and teaches at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat. Celestial Bodies was shortlisted for the Sahikh Zayed Award for Young Writers and her 2016 novel Narinjah won the Sultan Qaboos Award for culture, art and literature. Her short stories have been published in English, German, Italian, Korean and Serbian.
