《Map of Love愛情地圖》是2000年3月 Bloomsbury Publishing出版社出版的圖書，作者是Ahdaf Soueif。
基本介紹
- 書名：Map of Love愛情地圖
- 作者：Ahdaf Soueif(阿·蘇維夫)
- 原版名稱：《Map of Love》
- ISBN：9780747545637
- 類別：小說
- 頁數：320
- 定價：55.00元
- 出版社：Bloomsbury Publishing
- 出版時間：2003-3
- 裝幀：精裝
- 語言：英文
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編輯推薦
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.
內容簡介
Booker Prize Finalist
"Sweeping and evocative--. An unconventional love story."-- The Times (London)
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.
布克獎決賽
“掃地,喚起。一個非常規的愛情故事。”——《紐約時報》(倫敦)
與她的第一部小說,在太陽的眼睛,Ahdaf索埃弗獲得比較托爾斯泰,福樓拜,喬治·艾略特。在她的最新小說,是英國著名的布克獎入圍,她結合了十九世紀小說家的浪漫技巧和現代意義上的文化和政治——性和國際。
二十世紀的兩端,兩個女人愛上男人在他們熟悉的世界。最近1901年,安娜間歇河,喪偶,樹葉英格蘭對埃及來說,一個前哨帝國的民族主義情緒涌動。英國殖民地的安慰,她發現自己陶醉在真正的埃及和愛上謝里夫·帕夏al-Baroudi。將近一百年後,伊莎貝爾帕克曼,一個離婚的美國記者安娜的後裔和謝里夫愛上了奧馬爾·al-Ghamrawi天賦和困難的埃及裔美國指揮自己的政治熱情。為了理解她矛盾的情緒,發現她的遺產背後的真相,伊莎貝爾,也將前往埃及,把奧馬爾的姐姐的幫助瓦解安娜和謝里夫的愛的故事。
加入拜亞特的浪漫和錯綜複雜的故事的占有和麥可·翁達傑的英國病人,Ahdaf索埃弗再次創造了一個迷人的故事真正的口才和持久的重要性。
作者簡介
Ahdaf Soueif is the author of the bestselling The Map of Love which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1999. Ms Soueif is also a political and cultural commentator. A collection of her essays, Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground, was published in 2004. Her translation (from Arabic into English) of Mourid Barghouti's I Saw Ramallah also came out in 2004. She lives with her children in London and Cairo.
