Description
Across three generations in the fictional Omani town of al-Awafi, this sweeping, time-jumping novel traces how a family’s private lives are shaped by a society remaking itself after colonial rule and the abolition of slavery. Through interlocking voices and shifting perspectives, we follow marriages, betrayals, and long-buried secrets—where love and duty collide, and where the past keeps reappearing in the present with unsettling force. As characters navigate changing social roles, inherited power, and the moral weight of what was done to them, the story becomes a meditation on memory, identity, and the cost of survival. Written with inventive structural daring and a richly human, polyphonic style, it offers an intimate portrait of Omani life while illuminating universal themes of agency, inheritance, and the gravitational pull of family history.
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paperback
Catapult
Published Oct 8, 2019
257 pages
ISBN: 9781948226950
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First Published
2018
Language
eng
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