{"product_id":"celestial-bodies","title":"Celestial Bodies","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eCelestial Bodies\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJokha Alharthi\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781948226943\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eCatapult\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2019\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e256\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition: \u003c\/b\u003eUsed Copy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize and national bestseller is \"an innovative reimagining of the family saga . . . \u003ci\u003eCelestial Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese three women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool beautifully against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving from a traditional, slave-owning society into its complex present. Through the sisters, we glimpse a society in all its degrees, from the very poorest of the local slave families to those making money through the advent of new wealth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first novel originally written in Arabic to ever win the Man Booker International Prize, and the first book by a female Omani author to be translated into English, \u003ci\u003eCelestial Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e marks the arrival in the United States of a major international writer.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Celestial Bodies | Jokha Alharthi | Paperback | 9781948226943 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1671897","offer_id":48310528213144,"sku":"1671897","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Celestial Bodies | Jokha Alharthi | Paperback | 9781948226943 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks A 1749795","offer_id":48882153783448,"sku":"1749795","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71earRBiCKL.jpg?v=1773155058","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/celestial-bodies","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}