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Ḥārithī, Jūkhah,

Celestial bodies : a novel / Jokha Alharthi ; translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth. - xi, 243 pages : illustration ; 21 cm

First published in Oman in 2010.

Includes a bibliographical reference (page xi).

"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"--


Translated from Arabic.

Winner of the 2019 Man Booker international prize.

ISBN: 9789386797568

LCCN: 2019944448

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sisters--Oman--Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Family Life / General.
FICTION / Women.
Manners and customs.
Sisters.
Sisters--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Oman--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Oman.
Oman--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.

LC Class. No.: PJ7928.R58 / S2813 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 892.737 ALH