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Celestial Bodies

Jokha Alharthi

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#482 of 8,085 books · #246 in Fiction

Won the International Booker Prize (2019).

In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving from a traditional, slave-owning society into its complex present.

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Publisher
Sandstone Press
ISBN-13
9786556810089
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Family and marriageSocial change in OmanSlavery and its legacyLove and lossTradition versus modernity

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