Celestial Bodies

✍ Scribed by Jokha al-Harthi

• Book ID: 100438180
• Publisher: Sandstone Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 357 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781912240173

✦ Synopsis

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Paperback, 243 pages
Published 2018
Booker International Prize (2019)
Translated from Arabic by: Marilyn Booth
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.