Gewinnerin des Internationalen Man Booker-Preises 2019. Hier ein Artikel aus der FAZ dazu.
Klappentext:The village of al-Awafi in Oman is home to three sisters, conducting lives based on three differing marital situations, and observing the movement of Oman from colonial to contemporary culture. An elegantly structured coming-of-age story of a nation, through the lens of a family's highs and lows.
Über die Autorin / über den Autor: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.
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