Ladies of the Moon

Author: Jokha Alharthi

When Mia saw Ali bin Khalaf, he had spent years studying in London and returned without a degree. But the sight of him immediately shocked Mia. He was so tall he touched a swift cloud passing through the sky, and so thin that Mia wanted to hold him from the wind that carried the cloud away. He was noble. He was a saint. He wasn't one of those ordinary people who sweat, sleep, and curse. "I swear to you, my Lord, I want nothing more than to see him one more time." A novel from the Sultanate of Oman that addresses the transformations of the past and the present, combining, in elegant language, the tragedies of people who lack nothing with the tragedies of others who lack everything. Jokha Alharthi is a writer and academic from the Sultanate of Oman. She has published the short story collections "Excerpts from Lubna's Biography When It's Time to Leave," "A Boy on the Roof," and "In Praise of Love," as well as one novel, "Dreams."