Jokha Alharthi

Gebundenes Buch

Silken Gazelles

Beschreibung

The new novel from the first Arabic-language winner of the Booker International Prize.

In their small, mountainside village, Ghazaala and Asiya love each other like sisters, until tragedy strikes, and Asiya is forced into exile. Ghazaala is haunted by Asiya's absence; a wound that never quite heals.

When Ghazaala falls in love with a handsome violinist, everything changes. In Muscat, she tries desperately to balance university and the demands of a new wife. Then she meets Harir, whose life, unbeknownst to Ghaazala, has also been changed by Asiya and the mystery of her fate.

Silken Gazelles is a tribute to the power of friendship and the strength of women, intertwining love and loss with deft, beautiful prose.

'A "remarkable" writer who has "constructed her own novelistic form"' The New Yorker

Autor

Jokha Alharthi is the author of ten works, including three collections of short fiction, two children's books, and three novels in Arabic. Fluent in English, she completed a PhD in Classical Arabic Poetry in Edinburgh, and teaches at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat. Celestial Bodies was shortlisted for the Sahikh Zayed Award for Young Writers and her 2016 novel Narinjah won the Sultan Qaboos Award for culture, art and literature. Her short stories have been published in English, German, Italian, Korean and Serbian.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scribner UK / Simon & Schuster UK
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9781398528291
• ISBN-10: 1398528293
• Artikelnr.: 70103548

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Praise for Silken Gazelles

'A lush, shimmering portrait of a small community in the mountains of Oman, filled with women who love and care for one another, who fight for their dreams, and whose desire for independence and passion charts their course through the world far from their village . . . This book is transcendent' - Susan Straight, author of Mecca and In the Country of Women

'Through a touching, intricate narrative, Alharthi centres women's relationships and inspects their elastic but fragile nature' - Los Angeles Review of Books

'A haunting love story' - Booklist'

International Booker Prize winner Alharthi's eloquent latest . . . [is] a worthy entry

into the pantheon of stories about female friendship' - Publishers Weekly

'Alharthi mines rich material with her details of Omani history . . . A book about searching for love - both parental and romantic - and reckoning with the past' - Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Celestial Bodies

'Bright and illuminating' - Wall Street Journal

'A treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets' - The New York Times Book Review

'The great pleasure of reading Celestial Bodies is witnessing a novel argue, through the achieved perfection of its form, for a kind of inquiry that only the novel can really conduct' - New Yorker

'Breathtaking, layered, multigenerational . . . Follows the lives of three sisters from a small village at a time of rapid social and economic change in Oman. The tale is replete with history, poetry, and philosophy, but also slavery, broken marriages, passion, and not- so- secret lovers' - The Atlantic

'A rich, dense web of a novel . . . Alharthi constructs a tapestry of interlocking lives, some seen over the course of decades, others at just a single pungent moment. Rarely have I encoun-tered a work of fiction in which form and idea were so inseparably, and appropriately, fused' - New York Review of Books