O Mapa do Amor

Ahdaf Soueif

ISBN 10: 9727592317 / ISBN 13: 9789727592319

Published by Temas e Debates, 2002

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: En 'El Mapa del Amor' de Ahdaf Soueif, Isabel Parkman descubre un antiguo baúl lleno de documentos en el apartamento de su madre en Nueva York en 1977. Incapaz de descifrarlo sola, recurre a Omar al-Ghamrawi, de quien se está enamorando. Juntos, descubren las historias del diario de Lady Anna Winterbourne, quien viajó a Egipto en 1900 y se enamoró de Sharif Pasha al-Barudi, un nacionalista egipcio. Sorprendentemente, encuentran conexiones inesperadas entre sus propias familias y los problemas persistentes de sus antepasados: el colonialismo, el nacionalismo egipcio y el choque de culturas en Oriente Medio. Esta novela reflexiva sugiere que las relaciones entre individuos pueden marcar la diferencia, invitando a los lectores a viajar a través del tiempo, el espacio y la identidad. EAN: 9789727592319 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: O Mapa do Amor Autor: Ahdaf Soueif Editorial: Temas e Debates Idioma: pt Páginas: 450 Formato: tapa blanda.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: O Mapa do Amor
• Publisher: Temas e Debates
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: Portuguese
• ISBN 10: 9727592317
• ISBN 13: 9789727592319
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Como nuevo

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Synopsis

Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love is a massive family saga, a story that draws its readers into two moments in the complex, troubled history of modern Egypt. The story begins in 1977 in New York. There Isabel Parkman discovers an old trunk full of documents--some in English, some in Arabic--in her dying mother's apartment. Incapable of deciphering this stash by herself, she turns to Omar al-Ghamrawi, a man with whom she is falling in love. And Omar directs her in turn to his sister Amal in Cairo.

Together the two women begin to uncover the stories embedded in the journal of Lady Anna Winterbourne, who traveled to Egypt in 1900 and fell in love with Sharif Pasha al-Barudi, an Egyptian nationalist. To their surprise, they stumble across some unsuspected connections between their own families. Less surprising, perhaps, is the persistence of the very same issues that dogged their ancestors: colonialism, Egyptian nationalism, and the clash of cultures throughout the Middle East. The past, however, does offer some semblance of omniscience:

That is the beauty of the past; there it lies on the table: journals, pictures, a candle-glass, a few books of history. You leave it and come back to it and it waits for you--unchanged. You can turn back the pages, look again at the beginning. You can leaf forward and know the end. And you tell the story that they, the people who lived it, could only tell in part.

With its multiple narratives and ever-shifting perspectives, The Map of Love would seem to cast some doubt on even the most confident historian's version of events. Yet this subtle and reflective tale of love does suggest that the relations between individuals can (sometimes) make a difference. "I am in an English autumn in 1897," Amal confesses at one point, "and Anna's troubled heart lies open before me." Here, perhaps, is a hint about how we should read Soueif's staggering novel, using words as a means to travel through time, space, and identity. --Vicky Lebeau