The map of love by ahdaf soueif7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Predictably, the two fall passionately in love and marry.Īnna adopts Egyptian ways and customs and begins learning Arabic. ![]() She gets more than she bargained for when she is kidnapped and taken to the home of Sharif Pasha al-Baroudi. Determined to remedy the situation, she disguises herself as a young man and sets off to find adventure in the desert. She revels in the sights, sounds, and smells of Egypt, but expresses frustration at her less than authentic experiences since she is primarily confined to a British circle of friends. After the death of her first husband, Anna decides to travel to Egypt. The second timeline, beginning in 1899 and running through to 1913, consists primarily of Anna’s journal entries and letters. Anna’s second marriage was to an Egyptian who happened to be Amal’s great uncle. The papers belong to Anna Winterbourne, an English woman and Isabel’s great grandmother. They soon discover they are distant cousins. Amal agrees to the task and so Isabel turns up in Cairo and the two begin going through the papers. She is contacted by Isabel, a young American journalist, with a request to translate Arabic papers and journals she found in her mother’s old trunk. The novel opens in 1997 with Amal, an Egyptian-American living in Cairo. A finalist for the Booker Prize in 1999, The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif unfolds in two different timelines and through a variety of different formats. ![]()
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