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This winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize and national bestseller is āan innovative reimagining of the family saga . . .Ā Celestial BodiesĀ is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets" (The New York Times Bookā¦
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In this lyrical novel, winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize (the first novel in Arabic to do so), the Omani writer Altharthi captures the rich complexity of a country caught between the past and the future.
Her characters embody various aspects of Omanās historyāits slave trade, its maritime prowess, its close-knit village life, its rapid modern developmentāwhile at the same time debunking Western stereotypes about Arab women, society, and culture.
I visited Oman in early 2023 and everywhere I went, I saw Alharthiās novel brought to life. Time and memory, religion and magic, poetry and proverbsāall swirl hypnoticallyā¦
From Christiane's list on the intriguing country of Oman.
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