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Celestial Bodies

By: Jokha Alharthi
Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
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Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2019

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.

©2019 Jokha Alharthi (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Fiction Heartfelt Middle East Colonial Period
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A real struggle to finish. The narrator speaks with an exaggerated plummy accent and over the top intonation, making the story sound more like it's set in a 1950s British boarding school than in Oman. Nothing much happens in the story and it's full of bland one-dimensional characters

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