CD Audiobook
Celestial bodies [sound recording] / Jokha Alharthi.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781515948490
- Physical Description: 7 audio discs (8 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 inches
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [Old Saybrook, Connecticut] : Tantor Audio, [2019]
- Copyright: ℗2019
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Compact disc. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Laurence Bouvard. |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Arabic. |
| Awards Note: | Man Booker International Prize, 2019 |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Sisters > Oman > Fiction. Oman > Social life and customs > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. Historical fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Lakeshore Branch | CD FIC Harit | 31681010195618 | CDFIC | Available | - |
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In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters. 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. - Ingram Publishing Services
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.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.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, Celestial Bodies marks the arrival in the United States of a major international writer.
