Celestial Bodies - Jokha Alharthi

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2019‘A beautiful book, which teaches us a great deal about the swiftly changing relations between men and women and between the generations’ TLSSet in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, 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 beautifully written, Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring of a novel, telling of Oman’s coming-of-age through the prism of one family’s loves and losses.  PRAISE FOR CELESTIAL BODIES‘Pushes past stereotypical narratives of Muslim women defying patriarchy’ TIME‘Brings a distinctive and important new voice to world literature’ Irish Times‘Fascinating’ Guardian‘An innovative reimagining of the family saga . . . Celestial Bodies is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets’ New York Times'The great pleasure of reading Celestial Bodies is witnessing a novel argue, through the achieved perfection of its form, for a kind of inquiry that only the novel can really conduct. The ability to move freely through time, the privileged
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