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The Map of Love

Ahdaf Soueif

Paperback | Pages: 529 pages

Rating: 3.81 | 5769 Users | 876 Reviews

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

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A finalist for the Booker Prize when it was published in 1999, this novel of love and international politics set in Egypt is also a rich and rewarding mix of postmodern, post-colonial, and Victorian-era storytelling. In the scale of its romantic ambitions, it reminded me often of "The English Patient," and it cries out for a similar film adaptation to bring it visually to life. Soueif evokes several imaginative worlds, ranging from the Sinai deserts of a century ago to modern-day Cairo. Narrated

26 MAR 2016 - this is a book that with the correct cinematography and casting would make a fantastic film. In my mind, I am thinking of a comparison to Out of Africa. As for the reading of The Map of Love, as is usual with multiple storylines, I enjoyed Anna's story more. The Map of Love is a lovely read and I will hold out hope that someone will turn this into a lovely film.

I just can't explain exactly how I feel twards this novel? from time to time I fell in love with a novel with it's characters and with what it is telling us. these kind of novels are very rare and The Map of love is very much one of them. It is a fresh psalm that takes your heart away...very far and deep in time where you beleive that you like to belong during this time with these marvelous people, to be part of this love story between Ann an Sharif basha Al Baroudi, or at least to be one of its

The only reason this gets a three is because it was an interesting journey into the world view of another, and I enjoyed it while I was reading it. However, the morning after I finished it, I realized that although the interposition and parallelism of the the past and present was quite well done, the characters were flat. All the protagonists are admirable and all get along famously (including sisters, brothers, and all manner of in-laws); all conflict and pain is caused by the outsiders: the

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

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

Ahdaf Soueif's familiarity with the British sensibility and the Victorian literary style merges almost seamlessly with the Arab tendency to imbue magical/mystical elements into historical accounts and personal storytelling. This novel is balanced in that respect, lacking the sentimentality of other Egyptian writers of fiction. In some instances the editorializing - the commentary on the historical & political situation which seems to be the author's rather than the narrator's view - began to