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Lightning Source Inc, 2018
Titolo e contributi: Celestial Bodies
Pubblicazione: Lightning Source Inc, 2018
Descrizione fisica: 320 S.
ISBN: 9781912240173
Data:2018
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Abstract: Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2019! Winner of the 2010 Best Omani Novel Award! 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.