Ghazala’s silk

After the sudden disappearance of her breast-feeding sister, Ghazala, Ghazala escapes from that village tucked between the mountains of Oman to the love of a violinist with delicate fingers and a dreamy nature.

But the musician is swallowed up by shadows, to find Ghazala in the midst of the intersection of strange destinies...

Jokha Al-Harthy is a writer and academic from the Sultanate of Oman. She has published “Sayidat Al-Qamar” (Booker International Prize 2019) and “Naranja” (Sultan Qaboos Prize for Fiction 2017) by Dar Al-Adab.