Silken Gazelles
Autor Jokha Alharthi Traducere de Marilyn Boothen Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 aug 2024
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
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
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| CATAPULT – 26 aug 2025 | 90.34 lei 3-5 săpt. | |
| Hardback (1) | 90.22 lei 22-34 zile | +0.00 lei 7-13 zile |
| Simon&Schuster – 15 aug 2024 | 90.22 lei 22-34 zile | +0.00 lei 7-13 zile |
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781646222070
ISBN-10: 1646222075
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 142 x 211 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: CATAPULT
ISBN-10: 1646222075
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 142 x 211 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: CATAPULT
Recenzii
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
'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
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The new novel from the first Arabic-language winner of the Booker International Prize.
The new novel from the first Arabic-language winner of the Booker International Prize.