The Map of Love

21 Great Bloomsbury Reads for the 21st Century

Ahdaf Soueif (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

560 Seiten

2007 | 21st birthday celebratory ed
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7475-9002-6 (ISBN)

Infos

In 1900, Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt under British occupation. There she falls in love with Sharif al-Baroudi, an Egyptian patriot. A 100 years later, Isabel Parkman, a descendant of Anna and Sharif, goes to Egypt, taking with her an old trunk. The notebooks and journals in the trunk reveal her ancestors' lives and affect her own.

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In 1900, Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to an Egypt under British occupation. There she falls in love with Sharif al-Baroudi, an Egyptian patriot utterly committed to the cause of his country's freedom. 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. The notebooks and journals she finds in the trunk will reveal her ancestors' lives and will profoundly affect her own.

Autor

Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo. She is the author of Aisha, Sandpiper, In the Eye of the Sun and the bestselling novel The Map of Love which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999. She has translated I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti from Arabic into English. She also is a journalist and commentator and her work is syndicated throughout the world, and a collection of her journalism, Mezzaterra, was published in 2004.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.1.2007
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 129 x 198 mm
• Einbandart: Paperback
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0-7475-9002-8 / 0747590028
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-9002-6 / 9780747590026
• Zustand: Neuware