Translated from Arabic by Marilyn BoothPublished by Sandstone Press, 2018, 256 pages. Original version published in 2010. Celestial Bodies is a novel by Omani writer Jokha Alharthi that won the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. This makes it unusual—there aren’t a lot of books by Omani writers translated into English, and this is the …
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