by Robert Solé · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020239011
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«La Mamelouka» is the historical novel by Robert Solé, published by Seuil in paperback (345 pages, in French).
Dora, wife of Émile Touta, discovers photography in her husband's portrait studio in Egypt at the end of the 19th century. Her talent takes her to Cairo's high society; with nationalism on the rise under British occupation, she travels to Khartoum to cover the conquest of Sudan and reconcile her vocation with the conventions of her era.
The novel was originally published in 1996 in Seuil's Cadre Rouge collection and is classified in the Library of Congress as PQ3989.2.S62 M36 1996.
For readers of historical fiction set in late 19th-century Egypt and stories with female protagonists.
Robert Solé is a French journalist and novelist of Syrian origin. Born in Cairo in 1946, Solé moved to France at the age of 18. He has served as ombudsman of the Parisian newspaper Le Monde. His works of fiction include Le Tarbouche and La Mamelouka. Solé studied at the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille in Lille.
