by Robert Solé · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782020323604
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«La Mamelouka» is the novel by Robert Solé published by Seuil in paperback (338 pages, in French).
Set in mid-nineteenth-century Egypt, the novel follows a Western woman who photographs the country's landscapes and monuments with her camera, including the Sphinx. Her foreign gaze clashes with a society in transformation, in a story that combines travel, observation and cultural encounter.
The work was originally published on September 10, 1997. This paperback edition belongs to the Points collection of the Seuil publishing house.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and travel narratives set in nineteenth-century Egypt.
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.
