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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... happy married life — beginnings touching in their assumption of order, of a predicted, unfolding pattern. My mother is constantly in my mind. More so than my dear father — though I think of him a great deal too. I wonder how they were ...
... happy married life — beginnings touching in their assumption of order, of a predicted, unfolding pattern. My mother is constantly in my mind. More so than my dear father — though I think of him a great deal too. I wonder how they were ...
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... happy? And he, looking somewhat surprised, said, 'I expect so, my dear. She was a fine woman. And he was a true gentleman.' Sir Charles does not speak much of private matters. He is more happy on the high road of public life. Although ' ...
... happy? And he, looking somewhat surprised, said, 'I expect so, my dear. She was a fine woman. And he was a true gentleman.' Sir Charles does not speak much of private matters. He is more happy on the high road of public life. Although ' ...
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... My journal is of no use on such occasions for it would merely encourage the expression of these emotions that threaten me and that I must put aside. I cannot believe that he is happy. 2 Oh what a dear, ravishing thing is the beginning.
... My journal is of no use on such occasions for it would merely encourage the expression of these emotions that threaten me and that I must put aside. I cannot believe that he is happy. 2 Oh what a dear, ravishing thing is the beginning.
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... happy — or even comfortable — nature. He sits upright in the big chair, his grey woollen dressing gown belted neatly at the waist, his hair combed back, his moustache hiding his upper lip, the lower lip drawn. His eyes fix upon some ...
... happy — or even comfortable — nature. He sits upright in the big chair, his grey woollen dressing gown belted neatly at the waist, his hair combed back, his moustache hiding his upper lip, the lower lip drawn. His eyes fix upon some ...
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... happy man would not leave his home and go seeking death in the desert. A well-loved man would not die with horrors eating silently, secretly at his mind. If she had loved him better, perhaps he would not have needed to go to the Sudan ...
... happy man would not leave his home and go seeking death in the desert. A well-loved man would not die with horrors eating silently, secretly at his mind. If she had loved him better, perhaps he would not have needed to go to the Sudan ...
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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