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Celestial bodies : a novel
- Title
- Celestial bodies : a novel / Jokha Alharthi ; translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth.
- Author
- Alharthi, Jokha
- Publication
- New York : Catapult, 2019.
- ©2018
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Booth, Marilyn
- Description
- xi, 243 pages : illustration; 21 cm
- 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"--
- Uniform Title
- Sayyidāt al-qamar. English
- Alternative Title
- Sayyidāt al-qamar.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Note
- First published in Oman in 2010.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes a bibliographical reference (page xi).
- Language (note)
- Translated from Arabic.
- Awards (note)
- Winner of the 2019 Man Booker international prize.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-1553
- ISBN
- 9781948226943
- 1948226944
- LCCN
- 2019944448
- OCLC
- 1104862738
- Author
- Alharthi, Jokha, author.
- Title
- Celestial bodies : a novel / Jokha Alharthi ; translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth.
- Publisher
- New York : Catapult, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes a bibliographical reference (page xi).
- Language
- Translated from Arabic.
- Awards
- Winner of the 2019 Man Booker international prize.
- Added Author
- Booth, Marilyn, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-1553