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WINNER: 2019 Man Booker International prize.
Jokha Alharthi is the author of two previous collections of short fiction, a children’s book, 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. She has been shortlisted for the Sahikh Zayed Award for Young Writers and her short stories have been published in English, German, Italian, Korean, and Serbian.
Brings a distinctive and important new voice to world
literature.
*The Irish Times*
A richly imagined, engaging and poetic insight into a society in
transition and into lives previously obscured.
*The Man Booker International Prize judges*
Fascinating.
*The Guardian*
Alharthi has a strong narrative gift, transporting the reader into
all the intimacies of a close-knit family group.
*The Bay Magazine*
It skilfully builds suspense by creating “Aha!” moments as
characters come to better understand their pasts.
*The National*
Finished it in a couple of sittings, addictive, compelling,
informative and completely fascinating to read! Definitely
recommend it, fingers crossed it appears on the short list too.
*Independent Book Reviews*
A beautifully written and very moving story.
*Twitter*
‘Compelling...’
*Women In Translation*
Blends the rhythms of daily life with magic and legend.
Delivers the reader immediately into the world of the marginal,
forgotten, most subaltern sectors of society.
This novel is interesting as a lens through which to view an
important time in the transition of Omani society.
*The Wee Review*
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