Silken Gazelles

Praise for Silken Gazelles

'A lush, shimmering portrait of a small community in the mountains of Oman, filled with women who love and care for one another, who fight for their dreams, and whose desire for independence and passion charts their course through the world far from their village . . . This book is transcendent' - Susan Straight, author of Mecca and In the Country of Women

'Through a touching, intricate narrative, Alharthi centres women's relationships and inspects their elastic but fragile nature' - Los Angeles Review of Books

'A haunting love story' - Booklist'

International Booker Prize winner Alharthi's eloquent latest . . . [is] a worthy entry into the pantheon of stories about female friendship' - Publishers Weekly

'Alharthi mines rich material with her details of Omani history . . . A book about searching for love - both parental and romantic - and reckoning with the past' - Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Celestial Bodies

'Bright and illuminating' - Wall Street Journal

'A treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets' - The New York Times Book Review

'The great pleasure of reading Celestial Bodies is witnessing a novel argue, through the achieved perfection of its form, for a kind of inquiry that only the novel can really conduct' - New Yorker

'Breathtaking, layered, multigenerational . . . Follows the lives of three sisters from a small village at a time of rapid social and economic change in Oman. The tale is replete with history, poetry, and philosophy, but also slavery, broken marriages, passion, and not- so- secret lovers' - The Atlantic

'A rich, dense web of a novel . . . Alharthi constructs a tapestry of interlocking lives, some seen over the course of decades, others at just a single pungent moment. Rarely have I encoun-tered a work of fiction in which form and idea were so inseparably, and appropriately, fused' - New York Review of Books