The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
Booker Prize FinalistHere 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.
Ahdaf Soueif is the author of two novels, In the Eye of the Sun and The Map of Love (all of which were nominated for the Booker Prize in 1999), as well as a story collection, I Think of You, and an essay collection, Mezzaterra: Notes from the Common Ground. She was born in Cairo and currently resides there.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385720113 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385720114 |
| Title | The Map of Love |
| Author | Ahdaf Soueif |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Year published | 2000-09-12 |
| Number of pages | 544 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Booker Prize 1999 |
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