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Bitter orange tree : a novel / Jokha Alharthi ; translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth.

Bitter orange tree : a novel / Jokha Alharthi ; translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth.
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Reserve Title Catalogue Record 700003043
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ISBN 9781761104565 (paperback)
Classification F ALHA
Personal Name Ḥārithī, Jūkhah
Title Bitter orange tree : a novel / Jokha Alharthi ; translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth.
Production & Copyright Details Cammeray, NSW : Scribner, 2022.
©2022
Physical Description 214 pages ; 22 cm.
Content type text
Note "From the Winner of the International Booker Prize"--Front cover.
Translated from the Arabic.
Summary Note Zuhur, an Omani student at a British university, is caught between the past and the present. As she attempts to form friendships and assimilate in Britain, she can't help but ruminate on the relationships that have been central to her life. Most prominent is her strong emotional bond with Bint Amir, a woman she always thought of as her grandmother, who passed away just after Zuhur left the Arabian Peninsula. As the historical narrative of Bint Amir's challenged circumstances unfurls in captivating fragments, so too does Zuhur's isolated and unfulfilled present, one narrative segueing into another as time slips, and dreams mingle with memories. The eagerly awaited new novel by the winner of the Man Booker International Prize, Bitter Orange Tree is a profound exploration of social status, wealth, desire, and female agency. It presents a mosaic portrait of one young woman's attempt to understand the roots she has grown from, and to envisage an adulthood in which her own power and happiness might find the freedom necessary to bear fruit and flourish. An extraordinary novel from a 'remarkable' Booker Prize-winning author who has 'constructed her own novelistic form' (James Wood, The New Yorker) that follows one young Omani woman as she builds a life for herself in Britain and reflects on the relationships that have made her.
Subject - Topical Term Immigrants -- England -- Fiction
Granddaughters -- Fiction
Muslim women -- Fiction
Dreams -- Fiction
Loneliness -- Fiction
Subject - Genre Domestic fiction
Added Entry - Personal Name Booth, Marilyn translator.
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