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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... dark blue velvet. She had upended it over her palm and poured out a string of thirty-three prayer beads of polished wood with a short tassel of black silk. For the rest of the day her hand smelled faintly of aged sandalwood. Some ...
... dark blue velvet. She had upended it over her palm and poured out a string of thirty-three prayer beads of polished wood with a short tassel of black silk. For the rest of the day her hand smelled faintly of aged sandalwood. Some ...
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... dark with distance. And there was the latticed terrace of the haramlek, and behind the ornate woodwork I saw the shadow of a woman. Then the heavy door behind me swung open and I turned: outlined against a glaring rectangle of sunshine ...
... dark with distance. And there was the latticed terrace of the haramlek, and behind the ornate woodwork I saw the shadow of a woman. Then the heavy door behind me swung open and I turned: outlined against a glaring rectangle of sunshine ...
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... darker grains of wood, then shadowing them. At its centre shines a glass bowl in which three candles float like flat, golden lilies. 'I thought maybe it's like birthdays,' Isabel says. Her voice has that slight, deep-down tremor she has ...
... darker grains of wood, then shadowing them. At its centre shines a glass bowl in which three candles float like flat, golden lilies. 'I thought maybe it's like birthdays,' Isabel says. Her voice has that slight, deep-down tremor she has ...
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... dark, deep-set eyes are lit and fixed on her. He is laughing at her. From the head of the table, Deborah calls out, 'Anybody want more salad?' There is a general clinking of cutlery and shifting of plates and after a moment Deborah says ...
... dark, deep-set eyes are lit and fixed on her. He is laughing at her. From the head of the table, Deborah calls out, 'Anybody want more salad?' There is a general clinking of cutlery and shifting of plates and after a moment Deborah says ...
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... dark lips, but the eyes don't smile. 'Come on, Louis, you know better than that,' says Deborah. 'Fucking inscrutable,' says Louis. 'Let's have coffee through in the living room,' says Deborah, standing up. 'What is it you want to do ...
... dark lips, but the eyes don't smile. 'Come on, Louis, you know better than that,' says Deborah. 'Fucking inscrutable,' says Louis. 'Let's have coffee through in the living room,' says Deborah, standing up. 'What is it you want to do ...
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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