The Map of Love
by:
Ahdaf Soueif (author)
In 1900 Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt where she falls in love with Sharif, and Egyptian Nationalist utterly committed to his country's cause. A hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, an American divorcee and a descendant of Anna and Sharif, goes to Egypt, taking with her an old family...
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In 1900 Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt where she falls in love with Sharif, and Egyptian Nationalist utterly committed to his country's cause. A hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, an American divorcee and a descendant of Anna and Sharif, goes to Egypt, taking with her an old family trunk, inside which are found notebooks and journals which reveal Anna and Sharif's secret.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780747545637 (0747545634)
ASIN: 747545634
Publish date: March 23rd 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 529
Edition language: English
Judging by the price sticker I purchased this in Dublin's Chapters Bookshop. The cover is Aswan twilight with feluccas *sighs a remembering sigh*.Dedication: For IanFront Quotes: It is strange this period [1900-1914] when the Colonialists and their collaborators thought everything was quiet - was on...
المحير جدا جدا فى هذا الكتاب أننى فشلت جدا جدا فى تصنيفه , يبدأ الأمر فى أول الصفحات و كأنها رواية أجيال , خاصة مع تلك الشجرة العائلية التى تسبق الحكاية ذاتها , تلك الشجرة التى عاديتها أول الأمر فقد حرقت لى عند تصفحها ما ظننته أحداث الرواية كاملة , متى ستتزوج البطلة و ممن ؟ و متى سيموت البطل ······...
I love this book; this is my third reading.It tells the story of a young american woman investigating the life of her great grandmother who travelled to Egypt at the turn of the twentieth century after losing her husband, only to be kidnapped by nationalists and subsequently fall in love with an Eg...
I love this book; this is my third reading.It tells the story of a young american woman investigating the life of her great grandmother who travelled to Egypt at the turn of the twentieth century after losing her husband, only to be kidnapped by nationalists and subsequently fall in love with an Eg...
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