Celestial Bodies
by Jokha Alharthi (tr. Marilyn Booth)
"Three sisters, one Omani village, and a country transforming beneath their feet."
In the village of al-Awafi, sisters Mayya, Asma and Khawla marry into very different fates as Oman moves from a slave-owning past into dizzying modernity. Told in shifting voices across generations — intricate, poetic, quietly radical.
Worth knowing
Winner of the International Booker Prize — the first novel written in Arabic to take the prize.
