Silken Gazelles

✍ Scribed by Jokha Alharthi

• Book ID: 115289681
• Publisher: Catapult
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 652 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781646222087

✦ Synopsis

" In Alharthi's world, it's not only the future that holds promise; the past has possibility and opportunities for revision, too." --The New York Times Book Review
From Man Booker International Prize-winning author of Celestial Bodies and Bitter Orange Tree , a new novel about two Omani women whose unbreakable connection is forged as nursing sisters--a bond considered akin to that of a birth sibling
Raised as sisters, Ghazaala is devastated when her friend Asiya is forced to leave their small mountainside village following a tragic circumstance. It's a separation that haunts her into adulthood, and she never gives up on finding a love that might replace the bond they shared.
Years later, Ghazaala's family moves to Muscat, where she falls in love with a professional violinist who lives in their building. She completely surrenders herself to his charm and, despite her parents' opposition, runs away from...