#MBI2019
Man Booker International Prize 2019 winner
This morning, I shared with you the winner of the shadow panel
and my personal winner:
And the official winner is!
DID YOU READ THESE TITLES?
WHICH ONE WOULD BE YOUR WINNER?
Celestial Bodies
by Jokha Alharthi
Translated from the Arabic/Omani by
Marilyn Booth
Sandstone Press
6/21/2018
Originally published as
in 2010
Genre: Literary Fiction
243 pages
One asset of the Man Booker International 2019 longlist was to have us travel to lots of different places. I would bet that many of you have never read a book about Oman. I had not either, before Celestial Bodies, even though my traveling through books has been quite diversified.
