Adhaf Soueif, Author, Ahdaf Soueif, Author Pantheon Books $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40948-9
This densely detailed, richly textured novel impeccably recreates the milieus of Cairo, London and English university life as it recounts the maturing of Asya, a beautiful Egyptian who, by her own admission, ``feels more comfortable with art than...
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Ahdaf Soueif, Author . Anchor $14.95 (338p) ISBN 978-1-4000-9663-3
When Booker Prize finalist Soueif (The Map of Love
) moved from Egypt to London in 1984 to live with her husband, she became one of thousands of "people with an Arab or a Muslim background living in the West and doing daily double-takes when...
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Ahdaf Soueif, Author . Anchor $13 (182p) ISBN 978-0-307-27721-3
Soueif (shortlisted for the Booker in 1999 for The Map of Love
) serves up a mostly stale collection of previously published stories, all at least a decade old, about clashing cultures and disappointed love. The best are three stories that follow...
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Ahdaf Soueif, Author Anchor Books $16 (544p) ISBN 978-0-385-72011-3
Coincidence--personal, political and cultural--rules in this burnished, ultra-romantic Booker Prize finalist. In 1997, Isabel Parkman, a recently divorced American journalist, travels to Egypt to research about the impending millennium. But her...
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Ahdaf Soueif. Pantheon, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-90810-0
What novelist and translator Soueif (The Map of Love; Mezzaterra) saw during the Egyptian revolution of 2011 was no less than the upheaval of an entire order of Egyptian society. Hailing from a generation that tried and failed to bring down the...
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