03517cam a2200589 4500 423548013 TxAuBib 20200217120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781948226950 1948226952 B07STZ6QLX Amazon 30b66274-461b-4c17-ac66-72b3e2d3ec9a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4812958 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Alharthi, Jokha. Celestial Bodies [Bridges eBook]. Catapult, 2019. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1004kB. first omani woman in translation. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. man booker international prize. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. literature in translation. contemporary translation. arabic in translation. Celestial Bodies book. arabic literature. Man Booker winner. authors from Oman. Celestial Bodies. Man Booker Prize. Omani literature. The Vegetarian. Olga Tokarczuk. Jokha Alharthi. The Emissary . Marilyn Booth. Yoko Tawada. anna burns. Han Kang. flights. milkman. HTML:<p><b>Winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize and named a Best Book of the Year by <i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b></p> <p><b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER</b></p> <p><b>"An innovative reimagining of the family saga. . . there is no doubt that this is a contemporary novel, insistent and alive . . . <i>Celestial Bodies</i> is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets." —<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b></p> <p>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 refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada.</p> <p>These three women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool beautifully against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving from a traditional, slave-owning society into its complex present. Through the sisters, we glimpse a society in all its degrees, from the very poorest of the local slave families to those making money through the advent of new wealth.</p> <p>The first novel originally written in Arabic to ever win the Man Booker International Prize, and the first book by a female Omani author to be translated into English, <i>Celestial Bodies</i> marks the arrival in the United States of a major international writer.</p>. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-04-17 22:00:03. Booth, Marilyn. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=30b66274-461b-4c17-ac66-72b3e2d3ec9a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=30b66274-461b-4c17-ac66-72b3e2d3ec9a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=30b66274-461b-4c17-ac66-72b3e2d3ec9a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)