
Silken Gazelles
by Jokha Alharthi
Title:
Silken Gazelles
Author:
Jokha Alharthi
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
272 pages
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
ISBN-13:
9781398528291
EAN:
9781398528291
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
498
Dimensions (mm):
224 x 142 x 25
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
The new novel from the first Arabic-language winner of the Booker International Prize. 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.Silken Gazelles is a tribute to the power of friendship and the strength of women, intertwining love and loss with deft, beautiful prose.'A “remarkable” writer who has “constructed her own novelistic form”' The New Yorker













