CELESTIAL BODIES

Winner of the 2019 International Booker Prize. 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 w hile waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families witness Oman evolve from a tradition al, slave-owning society slowly redefining itself after the colonial era, to the crossroads of its complex present. Elegantly struct ured and ...[Read more]