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Celestial Bodies

by Jokha Alharthi
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Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2019!
Winner of the 2010 Best Omani Novel Award!
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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Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd

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  • ISBN: 9781912240173
  • File size: 1485 KB
  • Release date: June 21, 2018

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  • ISBN: 9781912240173
  • File size: 1485 KB
  • Release date: June 21, 2018
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Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2019!
Winner of the 2010 Best Omani Novel Award!
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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Fiction Literature
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