Celestial Bodies
Original title: سيدات القمر
by Jokha Alharthi
Translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth
- Publication
- First published 2018
- ISBN
- 9781618037985, 9781948226943, 9789386797575
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Sign in"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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