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Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi won the Man Booker International Prize this year for its beautifully rendered portrayal of a family’s tangled history in the village of al-Awafi in Oman. The novel was the first book translated from Arabic to win the prize, and more surprisingly, it was the... Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'
[ Electric Literature | 2019-11-26 11:59:00 UTC ]
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Jokha Alharthi’s inventive multigenerational tale, “Celestial Bodies,” is also the first novel by an Omani woman to be translated into English. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'
[ The New York Times | 2019-10-21 15:10:57 UTC ]
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With 'Celestial Bodies,' the winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize, the novelist tells the story of three Omani sisters against the backdrop of a changing society. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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