![]() ![]() Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist, has fallen in love with a gifted and difficult Egyptian-American conductor. Combining the romance and intricate narrative of a nineteenth-century novel with a very modern sense of culture and politics-both sexual and international-Ahdaf Soueif has created a thoroughly seductive and mesmerizing tale. Spanning three continents and the course of a century, The Map of Love traces a transcendent cross-cultural love affair back to its dramatic precursor generations earlier. ![]() When Isabel, in an attempt to discover the truth behind her heritage, reenacts Anna's excursion to Egypt, the story of her great-grandparents unravels before her, revealing startling parallels to her own life. The Map of Love was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. ![]() She soon found herself enraptured by the real Egypt and in love with Sharif Pasha al-Baroundi, an Egyptian nationalist. The Map of Love (1999), is the story of a love affair between an Englishwoman and an Egyptian nationalist set in Cairo in 1900, as secrets are uncovered by the womans great-granddaughter, herself in love with an Egyptian musician living in New York. ![]() In 1900 the recently widowed Anna Winterbourne left England for Egypt, an outpost of the Empire roiling with political sentiment. Shadowing her romance is the courtship of her great-grandparents Anna and Sharif nearly one hundred years before. Spanning three continents and the course of a century, The Map of Love traces a transcendent cross-cultural love affair back to its dramatic precursor generations earlier. ![]()
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