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"In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool ... against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving from a traditional, slave-owning society into its complex present"--

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International Booker Prize (Winners)
The International Booker Prize is awarded each year to a single book of fiction translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland, and its prize money is shared equally between the author and the translator. In its current form it dates from 2016, when it replaced a prize given every two years for an author's whole body of work. Its winners run from Han Kang's The Vegetarian and Olga Tokarczuk's Flights to Banu Mushtaq's Heart Lamp, the first book of short stories to win. This list collects the winning books by year.

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