Celestial Bodies
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- Titel: Celestial Bodies : Winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize / Johka Alharthi
- Person(en): Alharthi, Johka
- Sprache: Englisch
- Originalsprache: Englisch
- Umfang: 1 online resource
- Erschienen: 2018
- ISBN/Preis: 9781912240173 (electronic bk)
- Schlagwörter: Fiction ; Literature ; Electronic books
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Inhalt: Winner of the Best Omani Novel 2010. Celestial Bodies is set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, where 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.
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