From laureates of the Buker Prize (a set of 2 books)

1. Milk

in the nameless city is interesting - it is dangerous. The middle sister is trying to hide the relationship with his mother with a probably boyfriend and even more - repeated meetings with a mysterious thrush. When the local community learns about this secret connection, which is still not distinguished by the middle sister, becomes the object of close attention of everyone - relatives, friends, neighbors, and special services. And she wanted this the least.

Sad and funny at the same time, the “Milk” could be written by Gogol, he is born a century later and read Joyce.

2. Heavenly bodies

on an airplane flying from Oman to Frankfurt, Abdullah's merchant thinks about his relatives, recalls the departed father, who kept him in hedgehog mittens, is sad about his wife Miya, who never loved him, about her daughter, recently, recently Torn the engagement, thinks about the Zarifa, the black concubine-rabin who replaced his mother. We will soon find out that Miya really did not want to go for Abdullah - once she was in love with another, of a man whom she did not know. And she skillfully managed with a needle, but over the years of marriage, a dream fell in love with a more fell - there is no need to open her mouth once again. Her sisters, holi and Asmaa have his own story, their mother Salima, with the sheeps of Beduinka Nadzhiy-moon, who loved someone else's husband. Maybe al-Avafi is small, but everyone here has their own difficult fate, their own sorrows and joys. This novel is an amazing panorama of the life of the Muslim Oman, which fascinates with its quiet depth and eastern atmosphere.