EAN: 9781398541405

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

Celestial Bodies  is the International Booker-winning and internationally bestselling novel from Jokha Alharthi.  Set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman 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.   PRAISE FOR CELESTIAL BODIES "An innovative reimagining of the family saga . . .  Celestial Bodies  is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions of the gravitational pull of secrets” NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "The great pleasure of reading  Celestial Bodies  is witnessing a novel argue through the achieved perfection of its form for a kind of inquiry that only the novel can really conduct. The ability to move freely through time the privileged access to the wounded privacies of many characters the striking diversity of human beings across a relatively narrow canvas the shock waves as one generation heaves like tectonic plates against another the secrets and lapses and repressions at once intimate and historical the power indeed of an investigation that is always political and always intimate―here is the novel being supremely itself proving itself up to the job by changing not its terms of employment but the shape of the task." THE NEW YORKER "Breathtaking. The tale is replete with history poetry and philosophy but also slavery broken marriages passion and not-so-secret lovers." THE ATLANTIC

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