Celestial Bodies
About this book
"In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool ... against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving from a traditional, slave-owning society into its complex present"--
Subjects
- fiction
- fiction, family life
- fiction / family life / general
- fiction, general
- fiction / literary
- fiction / women
- general
- manners and customs
- middle east, fiction
- new york times reviewed
- romans, nouvelles
- sisters
- sisters, fiction
- social life and customs
- sœurs