Celestial bodies / Jokha Alharthi ; translated by Marilyn Booth.
Language: English Original language: Arabic Publication details: Dingwall, Ross-shire, Scotland : Sandstone Press, 2018.Description: xi, 243 pages : genealogical table ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781912240166
- Sayyidat al-qamar. English
- 892.737 23
- Winner 2019 International Man Booker Prize.
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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.
Translation of "Sayyidat al-qamar" (literal translation: 'Ladies of the Moon'). Translated from the Arabic.
Winner 2019 International Man Booker Prize.