Celestial bodies : a novel /
"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 famil...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Celestial bodies : |b a novel / |c Jokha Alharthi ; translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Catapult, |c 2019. | |
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| 500 | |a First published in Oman in 2010. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes a bibliographical reference (page xi). | ||
| 520 | |a "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"-- | ||
| 546 | |a Translated from Arabic. | ||
| 586 | |a Winner of the 2019 Man Booker international prize. | ||
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