alharthi, jokha

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.

The new novel from the first Arabic-language winner of the Booker International Prize. In their small, mountainside village, Ghazaala and Asiya love e

Jokha Alharthi re-appraises the relationship between love, poetry and Arab society in the 8th to 11th centuries. She avoids clich s about the purity o

Translated by Marilyn Booth An extraordinary novel from a Man Booker International Prize-winning author that follows one young Omani woman as she b