Celestial Bodies, Jokha Alharthi: Sandstone Press, 2018. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2019.

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. The novel explores the lives of three sisters as they witness Oman slowly redefining itself from a traditional, slave-owning society, to its complex present state, where social mores parley with aspiration, technology, and oil money.

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