Verfasst von:	Ḥāriṯī, Ǧūḫa al- [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Celestial bodies
Mitwirkende:	Booth, Marilyn [ÜbersetzerIn]
Werktitel:	Saiyidāt al-qamar
Paralleltitel:	Sayyidat al-quamar
Verf.angabe:	Johka Alharthi ; translated by Marilyn Booth
Verlagsort:	Inverness
Verlag:	Sandstone Press
E-Jahr:	2018
Jahr:	[2018]
Umfang:	xi, 243 Seiten
Illustrationen:	genealogische Tafel
Fussnoten:	Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
ISBN:	978-1-912240-16-6
Abstract:	Intro -- Contents -- Translator's Introduction -- Mayya -- Abdallah -- London -- Abdallah -- Asma -- Qamar, the Moon -- Abdallah -- Motherhood -- Abdallah -- Zarifa -- Abdallah -- Masouda -- Abdallah -- Mayya and London -- Abdallah -- Husbands -- Abdallah -- Khawla -- Abdallah -- Viper -- Abdallah -- Salima -- Azzan and Qamar -- Abdallah -- Zarifa -- Azzan and Qamar -- Abdallah -- Asma -- Abdallah -- Ankabuta -- Abdallah -- Salima -- Abdallah -- Asma -- Salima -- Abdallah -- Azzan and Qamar -- The Bridal Procession -- Abdallah -- Azzan and Qamar -- Abdallah -- London -- Zarifa -- Asma and Khalid -- Abdallah -- The Man in the Desert -- Khawla -- Abdallah -- Khalid -- Asma and the moon -- Abdallah's mother -- Cousin Marwan -- Sulayman -- Masouda, still here -- Abdallah -- London -- Khawla -- Abdallah
	Set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries Abdallah after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families witness Oman evolve from a traditional, slave-owning society slowly redefining itself after the colonial era, to the crossroads of its complex present. Elegantly structured and taut, Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring of a novel, telling of Oman's coming-of-age through the prism of one family's losses and loves.
Schlagwörter:	(g)Oman    / (s)Familie    / (s)Ehepaar    / (s)Gesellschaftsleben    / (s)Brauchtum    / (s)Roman    / (s)Familienroman
Dokumenttyp:	Fiktionale Darstellung
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Ḥāriṯī, Ǧūḫa al-, 1978 - : Celestial bodies. - La Vergne : Sandstone Press, 2018. - 1 Online-Ressource (243 Seiten)
RVK-Notation:	EN 3799
	EN 2946
Sach-SW:	Mate selection
	Married people
	Families
	Sisters
	Manners and customs
	Domestic fiction
	Fiction
Geograph. SW:	Oman
K10plus-PPN:	1666086053