Celestial bodies / Jokha Alharthi ; translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth.

By:

Alharthi, Jokha [author.]

Contributor(s):

Booth, Marilyn [translator.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Delhi : Simon & Schuster, 2019Description: xi, 243 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9789386797568 (paperback)

Uniform titles:

Sayyidāt al-qamar. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

892.737 ALH 23 018782

Awards:

Winner of the 2019 Man Booker international prize.

Summary: "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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	892.737 ALH 018782 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		018782

First published in Oman in 2010.

"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.

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