[EPUB] Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi , Marilyn Booth (Translator)

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Publisher: Sandstone Press
Genres: Fiction Books, History Books, Literary Fiction
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Pages: 243 pages
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN10: 1912240165
ISBN13: 9781912240166
Tags: Fiction eBooks, History eBooks, Literary Fiction eBooks, epub eBooks, Free epub
Language: en

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2019

Celestial Bodies is set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, where 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 taut, Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring of a novel, telling of Oman's coming-of-age through the prism of one family's losses and loves.

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