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The Map of Love

The Map of Love

Author(s): Ahdaf Soueif

Location(s): Egypt

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 20th Century span

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In 1900 Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt where she falls in love with Sharif, and Egyptian Nationalist utterly committed to his country’s cause. A hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, an American divorcee and a descendant of Anna and Sharif, goes to Egypt, taking with her an old family trunk, inside which are found notebooks and journals which reveal Anna and Sharif’s secret.

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An interesting and riveting account of period and place under colonial rule. This is Egypt under colonial rule.

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