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_aAlharthi, Jokha _eauthor. |
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_aCelestial bodies : _bSayyidat al-qamar / _cJokha Alharthi ; translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth. |
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_aNew Delhi : _bShimon & Schuster, _c2019. |
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| 520 | _a"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"-- | ||
| 650 | _aSisters--Oman--Fiction. | ||
| 650 | _aOman--Social life and customs--Fiction. | ||
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