{"product_id":"celestial-bodies","title":"Celestial Bodies","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize and national bestseller is “an innovative reimagining of the family saga . . . Celestial Bodies is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets\" (The New York Times Book Review).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese three women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool beautifully against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving from a traditional, slave-owning society into its complex present. Through the sisters, we glimpse a society in all its degrees, from the very poorest of the local slave families to those making money through the advent of new wealth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first novel originally written in Arabic to ever win the Man Booker International Prize, and the first book by a female Omani author to be translated into English, Celestial Bodies marks the arrival in the United States of a major international writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53603461464371,"sku":"9781948226943","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0843\/1108\/1267\/files\/9781948226943.jpg?v=1783087151","url":"https:\/\/slantoflightbooks.com\/products\/celestial-bodies","provider":"Slant of Light Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}