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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... Ahdaf Soueif. 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.
... Ahdaf Soueif. 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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... eyes and pulled the starched white sheet up close against my chin, I watched him pause and take off his tarbush and hand it, together with his ebony walking stick, to the Nubian sufragi who leaned towards him with words of greeting. He ...
... eyes and pulled the starched white sheet up close against my chin, I watched him pause and take off his tarbush and hand it, together with his ebony walking stick, to the Nubian sufragi who leaned towards him with words of greeting. He ...
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... eyes are still smiling. 'No?' 'No, really. Really. You just looked so solemn.' 'Well —' 'So, carry on. You were telling me about birthdays.' 'What I meant was — well, for us, this is only the third time we're seeing a new century come ...
... eyes are still smiling. 'No?' 'No, really. Really. You just looked so solemn.' 'Well —' 'So, carry on. You were telling me about birthdays.' 'What I meant was — well, for us, this is only the third time we're seeing a new century come ...
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... 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?' he asks as they walk ...
... 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?' he asks as they walk ...
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... back, his moustache hiding his upper lip, the lower lip drawn. His eyes fix upon some object behind her left shoulder, then move to the shrouded window, then down to the floor. They never meet her own. A muscle works, from time to time,
... back, his moustache hiding his upper lip, the lower lip drawn. His eyes fix upon some object behind her left shoulder, then move to the shrouded window, then down to the floor. They never meet her own. A muscle works, from time to time,
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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