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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... stayed in touch.' 'Oh, I think you'll find people will remember you —' 'There, you see, you're laughing at me again.' 'My dear, not at all. I'm sure you made a powerful impression. What were you doing there?' 'I did a Junior Year Abroad ...
... stayed in touch.' 'Oh, I think you'll find people will remember you —' 'There, you see, you're laughing at me again.' 'My dear, not at all. I'm sure you made a powerful impression. What were you doing there?' 'I did a Junior Year Abroad ...
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... stayed there to say to me, Look! It is not too late. Anna mends. The face that looks up at me as I turn from the kettle in the kitchen is no longer quite so haunted, quite so pale. The step I hear in my corridor is quicker and lighter ...
... stayed there to say to me, Look! It is not too late. Anna mends. The face that looks up at me as I turn from the kettle in the kitchen is no longer quite so haunted, quite so pale. The step I hear in my corridor is quicker and lighter ...
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... stayed in his eyes. My brother. As Isabel talks I can see him. She doesn't have to describe the way he walks into a room, the energy crackling off him, the heads turning to look. He walks into every room the way he walks down that long ...
... stayed in his eyes. My brother. As Isabel talks I can see him. She doesn't have to describe the way he walks into a room, the energy crackling off him, the heads turning to look. He walks into every room the way he walks down that long ...
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