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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... never in life seen) the tall broad-shouldered figure of my great-uncle, Sharif Basha al-Baroudi, and as I opened my eyes and pulled the starched white sheet up close against my chin, I watched him pause and take off his tarbush and hand ...
... never in life seen) the tall broad-shouldered figure of my great-uncle, Sharif Basha al-Baroudi, and as I opened my eyes and pulled the starched white sheet up close against my chin, I watched him pause and take off his tarbush and hand ...
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... never spoke of my mother. I asked Sir Charles, a few months ago, after my father's funeral, about my mother. I asked him how she and my father had been together. Had they been happy? And he, looking somewhat surprised, said, 'I expect ...
... never spoke of my mother. I asked Sir Charles, a few months ago, after my father's funeral, about my mother. I asked him how she and my father had been together. Had they been happy? And he, looking somewhat surprised, said, 'I expect ...
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... never had a millennium. So maybe we're —' 'Like a small kid? That's been said before.' 'What? What's been said before?' Louis leans over from Isabel's right, his high forehead catching the candlelight. He is proud of his receding ...
... never had a millennium. So maybe we're —' 'Like a small kid? That's been said before.' 'What? What's been said before?' Louis leans over from Isabel's right, his high forehead catching the candlelight. He is proud of his receding ...
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... never stopped mourning her son; she had held on to the birthdays, the Buddy Holly singles, the photographs. Isabel had grown up with a brother sixteen years her senior who was forever fourteen and turning for a second from the fish in ...
... never stopped mourning her son; she had held on to the birthdays, the Buddy Holly singles, the photographs. Isabel had grown up with a brother sixteen years her senior who was forever fourteen and turning for a second from the fish in ...
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... 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,
... 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