The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif (Paperback, 2000)

The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif

With her first novel, In the Eye of the Sun, Ahdaf Soueif garnered comparisons to Tolstoy, Flaubert, and George Eliot. In her latest novel, which was shortlisted for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize, she combines the romantic skill of the nineteenth-century novelists with a very modern sense of culture and politics--both sexual and international.

At either end of the twentieth century, two women fall in love with men outside their familiar worlds. In 1901, Anna Winterbourne, recently widowed, leaves England for Egypt, an outpost of the Empire roiling with nationalist sentiment. Far from the comfort of the British colony, she finds herself enraptured by the real Egypt and in love with Sharif Pasha al-Baroudi. Nearly a hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist and descendant of Anna and Sharif has fallen in love with Omar al-Ghamrawi, a gifted and difficult Egyptian-American conductor with his own passionate politics. In an attempt to understand her conflicting emotions and to discover the truth behind her heritage, Isabel, too, travels to Egypt, and enlists Omar's sister's help in unravelling the story of Anna and Sharif's love.

Joining the romance and intricate storytelling of A.S. Byatt's Possession and Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Ahdaf Soueif has once again created a mesmerizing tale of genuine eloquence and lasting importance.

Format: Paperback | 320 pages

Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 12.9 x 3.2 | 546g -

Publication Date: 01 May 2000

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom

Language: English

ISBN10: 0747545634 

ISBN13: 9788171086603

Condition: Good

A vintage book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very minor, tiny, scuff marks along the edges, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. All pages are bordered by a faint discolouring, none of which compromises the legibility or understanding of the text.No missing pages.