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Celestial Bodies

by Jokha Alharthi · 2010

Literary Fiction · ranked #235 in category

Three sisters in a changing Omani village — Mayya, Asma and Khawla — navigate marriage, love and loss across a society moving from a world of slavery and tribal custom to modernity. Alharthi's International Booker Prize-winning novel was the first novel originally written in Arabic to win the prize, and the first by an Omani woman to be translated into English.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2010 · 2010s
Author
Jokha Alharthi
Standing
Essential Read

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