by Ahdaf Soueif · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747545637
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«The Map of Love» is the historical and romantic novel by Ahdaf Soueif, published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in paperback (544 pages, in English).
The novel alternates two stories a century apart: in 1900, the Englishwoman Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt and meets Sharif, an Egyptian nationalist; a hundred years later, the American Isabel Parkman, a descendant of both, arrives in Egypt with a family trunk full of notebooks and diaries that illuminate her ancestors' past.
«The Map of Love», published in 2000, was a finalist for the Booker Prize; the story spans Egypt, England and the United States over a century.
For book clubs and readers of historical and romantic fiction interested in Egypt and the encounter between cultures.
Ahdaf Soueif is an Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator.
