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Title	:	The Map of Love
Author	:	Ahdaf Soueif
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 529 pages
Published	:	September 12th 2000 by Anchor Books (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Northern Africa. Egypt. Novels

The Map of Love

Ahdaf Soueif

Paperback | Pages: 529 pages

Rating: 3.81 | 5769 Users | 876 Reviews

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With her first novel, In the Eye of the Sun, Ahdaf Soueif garnered comparisons to Tolstoy, Flaubert, and George Eliot.  In her latest novel, which was shortlisted for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize, she combines the romantic skill of the nineteenth-century novelists with a very modern sense of culture and politics--both sexual and international.

At either end of the twentieth century, two women fall in love with men outside their familiar worlds. In 1901, Anna Winterbourne, recently widowed, leaves England for Egypt, an outpost of the Empire roiling with nationalist sentiment. Far from the comfort of the British colony, she finds herself enraptured by the real Egypt and in love with Sharif Pasha al-Baroudi. Nearly a hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist and descendant of Anna and Sharif has fallen in love with Omar al-Ghamrawi, a gifted and difficult Egyptian-American conductor with his own passionate politics. In an attempt to understand her conflicting emotions and to discover the truth behind her heritage, Isabel, too, travels to Egypt, and enlists Omar's sister's help in unravelling the story of Anna and Sharif's love.

Joining the romance and intricate storytelling of A.S. Byatt's Possession and Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Ahdaf Soueif has once again created a mesmerizing tale of genuine eloquence and lasting importance.

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Original Title:	The Map of Love
ISBN:	0385720114 (ISBN13: 9780385720113)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Egypt
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (1999)

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I really enjoyed this book. I am partial to multi-character and multi-generational narratives and this novel spans a very interesting part of Egyptian history. Seeing historical events like the Urabi revolt or various developments in Palestine from this fictional, first-person narrative perspective was engaging, though I have to say that some characters gripped me more than others. I found myself looking forward to the sections of Anna's letters (i.e. the earlier historical narrative) as opposed

I loved this book and I enjoyed reading it so much!, I ranked it as 5 even I know that some parts at the beginning may seem boring or confusing because of the multiple narrators & the jumping through time; back & forward , but indeed once I got caught with the protagonists..I simply loved them ,lived with them and shared their joy & pain!It is a brilliant analysis (political , historical ,economical, cultural & social) of Egypt - who is the actual heroine in my opinion - within

Friday, May 29, 2009Families and readers I have been reading The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif, a lovely saga of a thing, perfect for wintry nights because its set somewhere warm (Egypt) and has at its heart a reader prone to worrying with whom I instantly identified. This is the beginning of the book. "Amal reads deep into the night. She reads and lets Anna's words flow into her, probing gently at dreams and hope and sorrows she had sorted out, labelled and put away". I loved Amal as a character.

Very disappointing. A young American widow, Isabel, visits Egypt in the last 90's to pursue a story on the meaning of the Millenium for the Middle East and to expore the history of her grandmother, Anna, who married an Egyptian at the turn of the 20th century. The development of Anna's love for Sharif and bonds with his sister is told through letters and journals, with much background about the politics of Egypt's movement toward independence from the British. Isabel's developing love for an

2.5*The book started as 4* but ended as a 2*. When I read the synopsis I thought I was going to love it. It ticked all the right boxes : a love story set in Egypt, a country I really wanted to know more about, the use of letters and diaries to tell the story, two parallel stories set at different points in time. I loved Anna's story up to the point she got married and moved together with Layla and Sharif's mother. I was hopping for a more passionate relationship and I thought the romance story

Ahdaf Soueif presents two tales to provide a bridge across nations and generations. Amal receives a trunk from Isabel a love interest of Amal's brother Omar who resides in New York. She becomes immersed in uncovering the story of Anna an English woman of the early twentieth century which is found in journals in the trunk, one side of which Amal is already familiar with. While making her discoveries in the trunk Amal finds the ties that bound her great uncle are again entrapping her brother. The

One of my favorite books - it has everything you could want - romance, Egypt, kidnapping, desserts, stars, England, illigitamate children, brooding academic-types, sexy political dissidents, bold women, multi-cultural challenges, contemporary politics, turn-of-the-20th-century politics, luxe, fabric, fashion, trunks with old letters, family homes, lattice - shiveringly good...