Celestial bodies : a novel /
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Author / Creator: | Ḥārithī, Jūkhah, author. |
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Uniform title: | Sayyidāt al-qamar. English |
Imprint: | New York : Catapult, 2019. |
Description: | xi, 243 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11963008 |
Summary: | This winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize and national bestseller is "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" ( The New York Times Book Review ).<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> These three women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool beautifully against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving from a traditional, slave-owning society into its complex present. Through the sisters, we glimpse a society in all its degrees, from the very poorest of the local slave families to those making money through the advent of new wealth.<br> <br> The first novel originally written in Arabic to ever win the Man Booker International Prize, and the first book by a female Omani author to be translated into English, Celestial Bodies marks the arrival in the United States of a major international writer. |
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Item Description: | First published in Oman in 2010. |
Physical Description: | xi, 243 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm |
ISBN: | 9781948226943 1948226944 |