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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... everything was quiet — was one of the most fertile in Egypt's history. A great examination of the self took place, and a great recharging of energy in preparation for a new Renaissance. Gamal Abd el-Nasser, The Covenant 1962 A Beginning ...
... everything was quiet — was one of the most fertile in Egypt's history. A great examination of the self took place, and a great recharging of energy in preparation for a new Renaissance. Gamal Abd el-Nasser, The Covenant 1962 A Beginning ...
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... everything is somehow going to be different, you're going to be different; you'll be new —' 'And then?' 'And then, later —' she shrugs — 'you realise it isn't like that.' 'My dear girl — I'm sorry: my dear young woman — you can't ...
... everything is somehow going to be different, you're going to be different; you'll be new —' 'And then?' 'And then, later —' she shrugs — 'you realise it isn't like that.' 'My dear girl — I'm sorry: my dear young woman — you can't ...
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... everything we give him now. His stomach cannot retain so much as a cupful of thin gruel and I fancy he is attempting to purge himself of — all manner of things. I beg him to take heart, for our Lord surely watches over him as he watches ...
... everything we give him now. His stomach cannot retain so much as a cupful of thin gruel and I fancy he is attempting to purge himself of — all manner of things. I beg him to take heart, for our Lord surely watches over him as he watches ...
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... everything you could, my dear.' And there it was left. For she does not wish to rouse Sir Charles's sorrow. There is Sir Charles's sorrow and his anger. Thank God for his anger; it keeps his back straight and his step strong. Sir ...
... everything you could, my dear.' And there it was left. For she does not wish to rouse Sir Charles's sorrow. There is Sir Charles's sorrow and his anger. Thank God for his anger; it keeps his back straight and his step strong. Sir ...
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... everything. He has wonderful hands. And he writes books. I think I'm in love with him.' Jasmine is smiling. Looking at her. Does she see her? What does she see? Oh, I wish Daddy was here!' Isabel buries her face in her hands. Her ...
... everything. He has wonderful hands. And he writes books. I think I'm in love with him.' Jasmine is smiling. Looking at her. Does she see her? What does she see? Oh, I wish Daddy was here!' Isabel buries her face in her hands. Her ...
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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