The Map of Love Soueif Ahdaf Paperback
The Map of Love Soueif Ahdaf Paperback 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.…
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The Map of Love Soueif Ahdaf Paperback
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. 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. Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist, has fallen in love with a gifted and difficult Egyptian-American conductor.
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 She soon found herself enraptured by the real Egypt and in love with Sharif Pasha al-Baroudi, an Egyptian nationalist.