Jokha Alharthi’s elegantly structured and taut novel tells of Oman’s coming-of-age through the prism of one family’s losses and loves
Translated by Marilyn Booth
Marilyn Booth
- Born
Marilyn Booth was born in Boston, USA. She translated the International Booker Prize 2019-winning novel Celestial Bodies from Arabic
She holds the Khalid bin Abdallah Al Saud Chair for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, Oriental Institute and Magdalen College, Oxford. In addition to academic publications, she has translated many works of fiction from Arabic, including The Penguin’s Song and No Road to Paradise, both by Lebanese novelist Hassan Daoud. She lives in Oxford.
Celestial Bodies
Winner of The International Booker Prize 2019
- Translated by
- Marilyn Booth
- Published by
- Sandstone Press
Jokha Alharthi’s elegantly structured and taut novel tells of Oman’s coming-of-age through the prism of one family’s losses and loves