The Map of Love

Literary Sagas

Author: Ahdaf Soueif

One hundred years after one of her forebears married into an Egyptian family, Isabel returns to Egypt after falling in love with an Egyptian in New York. The story explores inter-racial love in a heart-piercing manner…..Read More

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