Silken Gazelles by Jokha Alharthi Hardback Book 9781398528291

The new novel from the first Arabiclanguage 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 Asiyaamprsquos 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 fateSilken Gazelles is a tribute to the power of friendship and the strength of women intertwining love and loss with deft beautiful proseamp39A ampldquoremarkableamprdquo writer who has ampldquoconstructed her own novelistic formamprdquoamp39 The New Yorker