Silken Gazelles av Jokha Alharthi

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<B>The new novel from the first Arabic-language winner of the Booker International Prize.</B><BR/><BR/> 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.<BR/><BR/> 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.<BR/><BR/><I>Silken Gazelles </I>is a tribute to the power of friendship and the strength of women, intertwining love and loss with deft, beautiful prose.<BR/><BR/><B>'A “remarkable” writer who has “constructed her own novelistic form”' <I>The New Yorker</I></B>