Celestial Bodies
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1912240165
ISBN 13
9781912240166
Category
Common Room
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Publication Year
2019
Publisher
Pages
256
Subject
Sisters-- Oman-- fiction; married people-- fiction; families-- fiction.
Description
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 rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families witness Oman evolve from a traditional, slave-owning society slowly redefining itself after the colonial era, to the crossroads of its complex present. Elegantly structured and taut, 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 - from Amzon
Number of Copies
2
