Celestial Bodies - Jokha Alharthi

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2019‘A beautiful book, which teaches us a great deal about the swiftly changing relations between men and women and between the generations’ TLSSet in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries Abdallah after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla who rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families witness Oman evolve from... Zobrazit více