Overview
Region
North Africa
Egypt
Era
Contemporary
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
Two love stories across a century — an English woman who falls in love with an Egyptian nationalist in 1900, and her American great-niece who discovers the story in 1997 — weaving together the colonial and the contemporary.
Literary Significance
Booker Prize shortlist; Soueif is one of the most important Arab writers in English