Celestial Bodies
by Jokha Alharthi · 2010
Literary Fiction · ranked #234 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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