Celestial Bodies

Jokha Alharthi is the author of two previous collections of short fiction, a children's book, and three novels in Arabic. Fluent in English, she completed a PhD in Classical Arabic Poetry in Edinburgh, and teaches at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat. She has been shortlisted for the Sahikh Zayed Award for Young Writers and her short stories have been published in English, German, Italian, Korean, and Serbian.

出版者:Sandstone Press

作者:Jokha Alharthi

页数:256

译者:Marilyn Booth

出版时间:2019-3-5

价格:0

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781912240166

图书标签:小说阿曼阿拉伯文学国际布克奖长篇小说英文原版2019国际布克奖入围作品外国文学

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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.

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Abdullah retrospected the reciprocated love between him and his wife, and the complex intimate family relationships with all the people involved in under Oman’s past and coming of age. Relationships in realistic world ran like the celestial bodies, if one met another good things may happen, or the best; if met others may occurs the worst.

Wallahi... love is dreams, marriage is for real. Life, responsibility, children. No illusions. The right person is the one who respects and honors you, and you feel totally comfortable with, the one who will be a father you can be proud of, for your children’s sake.

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Wallahi... love is dreams, marriage is for real. Life, responsibility, children. No illusions. The right person is the one who respects and honors you, and you feel totally comfortable with, the one who will be a father you can be proud of, for your children’s sake.