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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Jokha Alharthi, Marilyn Booth (trans.)
Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring of a novel, telling of Oman’s coming-of-age through the prism of one family’s losses and loves.
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Jokha Alharthi
The new novel from the first Arabic-language winner of the Booker International Prize.
In their small, mountainside village, Ghazaala and Asiya love each other like sisters, until tragedy strikes, and…
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"In Alharthi's world, it's not only the future that holds promise; the past has possibility and opportunities for revision, too." -The New York Times Book Review
From Man Booker International…
An extraordinary novel from a ‘remarkable’ Booker Prize-winning author who has ‘constructed her own novelistic form’ (James Wood, The New Yorker) that follows one young Omani woman as she builds…
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Jokha Alharthi re-appraises the relationship between love, poetry and Arab society in the 8th to 11th centuries. She avoids cliches about the purity of love in ‘Udhri poetry, instead questioning…
An extraordinary novel from a Man Booker International Prize-winning author that follows one young Omani woman as she builds a life for herself in Britain and reflects on the relationships…
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A TIME Best Book of the Year A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
An extraordinary novel from a Man Booker International Prize-winning author that follows one young Omani…
Translated by Marilyn Booth
An extraordinary novel from a Man Booker International Prize-winning author that follows one young Omani woman as she builds a life for herself in Britain and…
An extraordinary novel from a Man Booker International Prize-winning author that follows one young Omani woman as she builds a life for herself in Britain... (James Wood, The New Yorker).
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…
Set 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…
From Man Booker International Prize-winning author Jokha Alharthi, Bitter Orange Tree is a profound exploration of social status, wealth, desire, and female agency. It presents a mosaic portrait of one…
