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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... buff folders. There is a large green journal, and another bound in plain brown leather, a tiny brass keyhole embedded in its chased clasp. The key Amal found later in the corner of a purse made of green felt — a purse with an unwilling ...
... buff folders. There is a large green journal, and another bound in plain brown leather, a tiny brass keyhole embedded in its chased clasp. The key Amal found later in the corner of a purse made of green felt — a purse with an unwilling ...
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A Novel Ahdaf Soueif. of green felt — a purse with an unwilling feel to it, as though it had been made in a schoolroom project — and with it were two wedding rings, one smaller than the other. She looked carefully at the etchings inside ...
A Novel Ahdaf Soueif. of green felt — a purse with an unwilling feel to it, as though it had been made in a schoolroom project — and with it were two wedding rings, one smaller than the other. She looked carefully at the etchings inside ...
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... feel the lack of my mother. And yet I could not say that Edward has changed. He has not. It is that same polite courtesy that I thought the mark of greater things to come, that I thought the harbinger of a close affection and an ...
... feel the lack of my mother. And yet I could not say that Edward has changed. He has not. It is that same polite courtesy that I thought the mark of greater things to come, that I thought the harbinger of a close affection and an ...
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... feels in his pockets. 'Do you have a card or a piece of paper or something?' She looks in her handbag and passes him a small white notepad. He takes the cap off his fountain pen and scribbles in black ink. 'Can you read this? When do ...
... feels in his pockets. 'Do you have a card or a piece of paper or something?' She looks in her handbag and passes him a small white notepad. He takes the cap off his fountain pen and scribbles in black ink. 'Can you read this? When do ...
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... feel relieved if Irving has enjoyed the evening or to make it up to him if he hasn't — by the absence of resentment in her life. It is after midnight and yet she is full of energy. She crosses over to the desk and checks her answering ...
... feel relieved if Irving has enjoyed the evening or to make it up to him if he hasn't — by the absence of resentment in her life. It is after midnight and yet she is full of energy. She crosses over to the desk and checks her answering ...
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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