When Mia saw Ali Bin Khalaf, he had spent years in London to study and returned without a degree. But seeing him instantly shocked Mia. He was so tall that he touched a hasty cloud in the sky, and so slender that Mia wanted to support him from the wind that carried the cloud away. He was noble. He was a saint. He was not one of those ordinary people who sweat, sleep and swear. “I swear to you, my Lord, that I only want to see him again.” A novel from the Sultanate of Oman deals with the transformations of the past and the present, and combines, in graceful language, between the tragedies of people who lack nothing and the tragedies of others who lack everything. Jokha Al-Harthy is a writer and academic from the Sultanate of Oman. She has published collections of short stories, “Excerpts from Lubna’s Biography, When the Time Comes to Departure,” “A Boy on the Roof,” “In Praise of Love,” and one novel, “Dreams.”
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