The Map of Love: A NovelKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 26 de gen. 2011 - 544 pàgines Booker Prize Finalist Here is an extraordinary cross-cultural love story that unfurls across Egypt, England, and the United States over the course of a century. Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist, has fallen in love with a gifted and difficult Egyptian-American conductor. Shadowing her romance is the courtship of her great-grandparents Anna and Sharif nearly one hundred years before. In 1900 the recently widows Anna Winterbourne left England for Egypt, an outpost of the Empire roiling with political sentiment. She soon found herself enraptured by the real Egypt and in love with Sharif Pasha al-Baroudi, an Egyptian nationalist. When Isabel, in an attempt to discover the truth behind her heritage, reenacts Anna’s excursion to Egypt, the story of her great-grandparents unravels before her, revealing startling parallels for her own life. Combining the romance and intricate narrative of a nineteenth-century novel with a very modern sense of culture and politics—both sexual and international—Ahdaf Soueif has created a thoroughly seductive and mesmerizing tale. |
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... 1 A child forsaken, waking suddenly, Whose gaze afeard on all things round doth rove, And seeth only that it cannot see The meeting eyes of love. Quoted in Middlemarch Cairo, April 1997 Some people can make themselves cry. I.
... 1 A child forsaken, waking suddenly, Whose gaze afeard on all things round doth rove, And seeth only that it cannot see The meeting eyes of love. Quoted in Middlemarch Cairo, April 1997 Some people can make themselves cry. I.
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A Novel Ahdaf Soueif. Cairo, April 1997 Some people can make themselves cry. I can make myself sick with terror. When I was a child — before I had children of my own — I did it by thinking about death. Now, I think about the stars. I ...
A Novel Ahdaf Soueif. Cairo, April 1997 Some people can make themselves cry. I can make myself sick with terror. When I was a child — before I had children of my own — I did it by thinking about death. Now, I think about the stars. I ...
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... Cairo and back. That lived in the boxroom of a Manhattan apartment for many years, then found its way back again and came to rest on my living-room floor here in Cairo one day in the spring of 1997. It is the story of two women: Isabel ...
... Cairo and back. That lived in the boxroom of a Manhattan apartment for many years, then found its way back again and came to rest on my living-room floor here in Cairo one day in the spring of 1997. It is the story of two women: Isabel ...
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A Novel Ahdaf Soueif. 2 Oh what a dear, ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour! Aphra Behn, c. 1680 Cairo, May 1997 Isabel gives me bits of her story.
A Novel Ahdaf Soueif. 2 Oh what a dear, ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour! Aphra Behn, c. 1680 Cairo, May 1997 Isabel gives me bits of her story.
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... call him? She slips all the way down into the bath, butterfly clip and all, until the water closes over her face and she feels the tingle in her scalp as it penetrates her hair. Cairo, May 1997 I am obsessed with Anna Winterbourne's brown.
... call him? She slips all the way down into the bath, butterfly clip and all, until the water closes over her face and she feels the tingle in her scalp as it penetrates her hair. Cairo, May 1997 I am obsessed with Anna Winterbourne's brown.
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Abeih Abu el-Ma Abu Qir Ahdaf Soueif Ahmad al-Baroudi al-Ghamrawi Amal Anna’s Arabic arms asks Barrington believe British brother Cairo child Copts courtyard dark Deena door dress Egypt Egyptian English everything eyes face fallaheen father feel hair hand happened happy Harry Boyle head heart hold husband Husni Isabel says Ismail Jasmine Khedive kiss Lady Anna land laughs Layla leave letter light listen live look Lord Cromer Mabrouka marriage married mother Mustafa Kamel never night Palestine Pasha prayer beads Qasim Amin Ramallah Rashid Rida Sabir Sabri says Isabel Sharif Basha says Sheikh Sheikh Muhammad Abdu silence sleep smile speak stands stay sure Tahiyya talk tarbush Tareq Tawasi tell There’s They’re things thought told turned Urabi Urabi Pasha village voice wait walk watch what’s wish woman women wonderful Yaqub Artin young Zeinab Hanim