North Africa
Egypt
Contemporary
English
Fiction
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
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editorial-summarynot primary textTwo 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. Booker Prize shortlist; Soueif is one of the most important Arab writers in English
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