Silken Gazelles
262
мека
английски
2025
3.10.2025 г.
25822831
9781398528314
The new novel from the first Arabic-language winner of the Booker International Prize.
Silken Gazelles is a tribute to the power of friendship and the strength of women, intertwining love and loss with deft, beautiful prose.
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.
About the author |
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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. |
Praise for Silken Gazelles |
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'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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