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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... head its high ceiling of wooden rafters: a thousand painted flowers gleaming 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 ...
... head its high ceiling of wooden rafters: a thousand painted flowers gleaming 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 ...
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... head. 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 ...
... head. 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 ...
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... head; 'millennium, millennium, everywhere you look it's the millennium. I thought you didn't want to do the millennium?' 'What are you doing?' asks Louis. 'I thought you were due to complete —' 'She's added on an option —' Laura begins ...
... head; 'millennium, millennium, everywhere you look it's the millennium. I thought you didn't want to do the millennium?' 'What are you doing?' asks Louis. 'I thought you were due to complete —' 'She's added on an option —' Laura begins ...
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... head Isa — Bella, Isa — Bella...' Keeping time with small splashes in the water, Isabel drifts into memories of her father, her small hand secure in his big, warm grasp, their feet kicking up the spray as they paddle on the beach in ...
... head Isa — Bella, Isa — Bella...' Keeping time with small splashes in the water, Isabel drifts into memories of her father, her small hand secure in his big, warm grasp, their feet kicking up the spray as they paddle on the beach in ...
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... head. Halfway back he stopped and struck his fist against the back of a chair. 'By God! You'll pardon me, my dear, but I feel like taking a whip to him. If he had not the stomach for it, what drove him to go? He requested that ...
... head. Halfway back he stopped and struck his fist against the back of a chair. 'By God! You'll pardon me, my dear, but I feel like taking a whip to him. If he had not the stomach for it, what drove him to go? He requested that ...
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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