Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs

Abdulaziz Al Farsi 
Translated by Nancy Roberts

A novel of traditional stagnation and Saturnine awakening from a rising Omani novelist

Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs opens with the return of Khalid Bakhit, a government employee, to his hometown in Oman after a time away in the big city, and concludes with his return to the city with a new maturity born of a series of wrenching encounters with reality...