by Ahdaf Soueif · Temas e Debates · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789727592319
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«O Mapa do Amor» is the historical novel by Ahdaf Soueif, published by Temas e Debates in paperback (450 pages, in Portuguese).
In 1977, Isabel Parkman finds in her mother's house a trunk with diaries and letters she cannot decipher; she asks Omar, with whom she is falling in love, for help. Through her sister Amal she discovers the diary of Lady Anna Winterbourne, who travelled to Egypt in 1900 and fell in love with a nationalist. A family saga intertwining love with colonialism and the clash of cultures.
Finalist for the Booker Prize in 1999, it was originally published in English as The Map of Love; this Portuguese edition appeared in 2002.
For readers of historical fiction and family sagas, with a plot combining romance, politics and memory.
Ahdaf Soueif is an Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator.
