Silken Gazelles: A Novel

“In Alharthi’s world, it’s not only the future that holds promise; the past has possibility and opportunities for revision, too." —The New York Times Book Review

From Man Booker International Prize-winning author of Celestial Bodies and Bitter Orange Tree, a new novel about two Omani women whose unbreakable connection is forged as nursing sisters—a bond considered akin to that of a birth sibling

Raised as sisters, Ghazaala is devastated when her friend Asiya is forced to leave their small mou...