Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, THE MAP OF LOVE is a novel about two women and their relationships with problematical men. In 1901 an English widow named Anna Winterbourne falls in love with an Egyptian, and in 2001 Isabel Parkman, ...
Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed
Ahdaf SoueifWhen throngs of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the fall of Hosni Mubarak's regime, Ahdaf Soueif—author, journalist, lifelong progressive—was among them. Now, in this deeply personal work, Soueif summons her storytel...
Ahdaf Soueif, the bestselling author of The Map of Love, writes poignantly and beautifully about love, and about finding one’s place in the world. Achingly lyrical, resonant and richly woven, and with a spark of defiance, these ...