Jokha Alharthi

2 months ago | wordswithoutborders.org | Tobias Carroll |Yau Ching |Jokha Alharthi |Ann-Helén Laestadius

From New Vessel Press | Ugliness by Moshtari Hilal, translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer | Nonfiction | 224 pages | ISBN 9781954404281 | US$18.95What the publisher says: “How do power and beauty join forces to determine who is considered ugly? What role does that ugliness play in fomenting hatred?

Aug 13, 2024 | adastrastories.substack.com | Isabella Hammad |Jokha Alharthi

There’s a quiet beauty that runs through Jokha Alharthi’s books, one that artfully displays the strength of relationships between women—mothers and daughters, friendships, and beyond. In her latest novel to be translated into English, Silken Gazelles (Catapult, 2024), these relationships are prioritized by the writer, even if not by all the protagonists.

Aug 8, 2023 | citylights.com | Jokha Alharthi

Translator: Marilyn Booth Paperback Price: $16.95 Bitter Orange Tree quantity Overview Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award A TIME Best Book of the Year A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An extraordinary novel from a Man Booker International Prize-winning author that follows one young Omani woman as she builds a life for herself in Britain and reflects on the relationships that have made her from a “remarkable” writer who has “constructed her own novelistic form” (James Wood, The New...