Bitter Orange Tree av Jokha Alharthi

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<B><B>Translated by Marilyn Booth<BR/><BR/> Short</B></B><B><B>listed for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2023<BR/> Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award</B></B><BR/><BR/><B><B>An extraordinary novel from a Man Booker International Prize-winning author that follows one young Omani woman as she builds a life for herself in Britain and reflects on the relationships that have made her from a “remarkable” writer who has “constructed her own novelistic form” (James Wood, <I>The New Yorker</I>).</B></B><BR/><BR/>‘Alharthi makes lyrical shifts between past and present, memory and folklore, oneiric surrealism and grimy realism.’ <B><I>Guardian</I></B><BR/><BR/> [A] stirring tale of a woman who battles every social and religious constraint. The juxtaposition with the narrator’s reflections on modern life and the speed of change is brilliantly judged in Marilyn Booth’s agile translation from Arabic.’ <I><B>Th