Ahdaf Soueif, the bestselling author of "The Map of Love," writes poignantly and beautifully about love, and about finding one's place in the world. Achingly lyrical, resonant and richly woven, and with a spark of defiance, these stories explore areas of tension-where women and men are ensnared by cultural and social mores and prescribed notions of "love," where the place you are is not the place you want to be. Soueif draws her characters with infinite tenderness and compassion as they inhabit a world of lost opportunities, unfulfilled love, and remembrance of times past.
Ahdaf Soueif, the bestselling author of "The Map of Love," writes poignantly and beautifully about love, and about finding one's place in the world. A...
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...
Booker Prize Finalist Here is an extraordinary cross-cultural love story that unfurls across Egypt, England, and the United States over th...
This intimate look into the often hidden lives of today's Arab women tells the story of Asya, a brilliant young Egyptian caught in a struggle between ties to her traditions and desire for independence and sexual fulfillment.
This intimate look into the often hidden lives of today's Arab women tells the story of Asya, a brilliant young Egyptian caught in a struggle between ...
