【图书简介】 CoincidenceApersonal， political and culturalArules in this burnished， ultra-romantic Booker Prize finalist. In 1997， Isabel Parkman， a recently divorced American journalist， travels to Egypt to research about the impending millennium. But her interest in Egypt has more to do with her crush on Omar al-Ghamrawi， a passionate and difficult older Egyptian-American conductor and political writer， than with her work. Once in Egypt， Isabel neglects her project for a more personal investigation. Lugging with her a mysterious trunk of papers bequeathed to her by her mother， Isabel turns up at Omar's sister Amal's house in Cairo and explains that Omar had said she might be interested in translating the papers. As the two soon discover， Isabel is Amal's distant cousin， and the papers belonged to their mutual great-grandmother， Anna Winterbourne. As a young English widow， Anna traveled to turn-of-the-century Egypt， then an English colony， and fell in love with an Egyptian man. "I cannot help thinking that when she chose to step off the well-trodden paths of expatriate life， Anna must have secretly wanted something out of the ordinary to happen to her，" muses Amal， who begins to realize that the same applies to her own life. Soueif （In the Eye of the Sun） writes simply and， on occasion， beautifully. Anna's journal entries are particularly evocative. Sticklers for narrative detail might chafe at the number of incredible coincidences， including a bizarre twist involving Isabel's mother and Omar， and forsaken plot devices （Isabel's millennium project is never mentioned after her arrival in Egypt）. On balance， however， Soueif weaves the stories of three formidable women from vastly different times and countries into a single absorbing tale. 6-city author tour. （Sept.） Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information， Inc. ：This text refers to the Paperback edition.
【作者简介】 Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo and educated in Egypt and England. She is the author of Aisha， Sandpiper and In the Eye of the Sun.
【本书目录】 A Beginniging Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 An End of a Beginning Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 A Beginning of an End Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 An End Glossary
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