AHDAF SOUEIF

Lady Anna, una joven aristócrata inglesa de visita en El Cairo, concibe un arriesgado plan para burlar la rigidez colonial que le impide conocer un mundo que la fascina. Sin embargo, fustrada su aventura por un grupo de nacionalistas egipcios que la confunden con otra persona, es llevada a la casa de Sharif al-Baroudi, un abogado egipcio entrega...

Booker Prize Finalist "Sweeping and evocative--. An unconventional love story."--"The Times"...

Ahdaf Soueif, the bestselling author of The Map of Love, writes poignantly and beautifully about love, and about finding one’s place in the world. Achingly lyrical, resonant and richly woven, and with a spark of defiance, these stories explore areas of tension–where women and men are ensnared by cultural and social mores and prescribed notions o...