Publisher's Synopsis
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2019
The judges called the book ‘A richly imagined, engaging and poetic insight into a society in transition and into lives previously obscured.’
'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.
