A magnificent work, reminiscent of Marquez and Allende in its breadth and confidence. Guardian
Klappentext:At either end of the twentieth century, two women fall in love with men outside their familiar worlds. In 1901, Lady Anna Winterbourne, recently widowed, leaves England for Egypt, an outpost of the Empire roiling with nationalist sentiment. Venturing out of the British expat comfort zone, she finds herself enraptured by the real Egypt and in love with an Egyptian patriot, Sharif Pasha al-Baroudi. Nearly a hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist and a descendant of Anna and Sharif, goes to Egypt, taking with her an old family trunk. The notebooks and journals she finds in the trunk will reveal her ancestors' lives and will profoundly transform her own.
Über die Autorin / über den Autor:Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo and educated in Egypt and England. She is the author of I Think of You, In the Eye of the Sun and, most recently, Cairo: My City, Our Revolution.
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