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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... English, written, she believed, by her great-grandmother. But there were many papers and documents in Arabic. And there were other things: objects. And the English papers were mostly undated, and some were bound together but seemed to ...
... English, written, she believed, by her great-grandmother. But there were many papers and documents in Arabic. And there were other things: objects. And the English papers were mostly undated, and some were bound together but seemed to ...
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... English autumn in 1897 and Anna's troubled heart lies open before me: — and yet, I do love him, in the sense that I wish him well, and were it in my power to make his lot happier and his heart more content, I would willingly and with a ...
... English autumn in 1897 and Anna's troubled heart lies open before me: — and yet, I do love him, in the sense that I wish him well, and were it in my power to make his lot happier and his heart more content, I would willingly and with a ...
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... English mourn. There seems to be a funeral and then — nothing. Just an emptiness. No friends and relatives filling the house. No Thursday nights. No Fortieth Day. Nothing. The house is already silenced through her husband's long absence ...
... English mourn. There seems to be a funeral and then — nothing. Just an emptiness. No friends and relatives filling the house. No Thursday nights. No Fortieth Day. Nothing. The house is already silenced through her husband's long absence ...
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... English soldier will permit himself to show. And then his concern for this unhappy daughter he is left with. Today I walked — as I had walked so many times during his illness — to the South Kensington Museum. I found when I got there ...
... English soldier will permit himself to show. And then his concern for this unhappy daughter he is left with. Today I walked — as I had walked so many times during his illness — to the South Kensington Museum. I found when I got there ...
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... English cake (which turned out to be a plain but perfectly well-made sandcake), and waited for the parades. I observed that there were a great many decorations about: flags and strips of gaily coloured cloth and banners — to say nothing ...
... English cake (which turned out to be a plain but perfectly well-made sandcake), and waited for the parades. I observed that there were a great many decorations about: flags and strips of gaily coloured cloth and banners — to say nothing ...
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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