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Ahdaf Soueif

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Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo and educated in Egypt and England. She lives in London. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Werken van Ahdaf Soueif

De kaart van de liefde (1999) 1,641 exemplaren
In the Eye of the Sun (1992) 379 exemplaren
Cairo: My City, Our Revolution (2012) 90 exemplaren
I Think of You (2007) 67 exemplaren
Aisha (1983) 62 exemplaren
Reflections (Eng PB) (2011) 13 exemplaren
Lady Pacha (2000) 4 exemplaren
زينة الحياة (1996) 3 exemplaren
Baghdad Burning 1 exemplaar

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The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid (2001) — Medewerker — 100 exemplaren
The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write (2017) — Medewerker — 74 exemplaren
War With No End (2007) — Medewerker — 37 exemplaren
The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (1995) — Medewerker — 33 exemplaren
We Wrote In Symbols: Love and Lust By Arab Women Writers (2021) — Medewerker — 16 exemplaren

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En los albores del siglo XX, el colonialismo europeo impono seu ley en África del Norte. Lady Anna Winterbourne, una joven aristócrata inglesa de visita en El Cairo, concibe un arriesgado plan para burlar la rigidez de una sociedad colonial que le impide conocer un mundo que la fascina. Sin embargo, frustrada su aventura por un grupo de nacionalistas egipcios que la confunden con otra persona, es llevada a casa de Sharif al-Baroudi, un abogado egipcio entregado a la causa de su país. El encuentro entre ambos cambiará radicalmente sus vidas.… (meer)
 
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Natt90 | 32 andere besprekingen | Jan 24, 2023 |
Here's what I wrote in 2008 about this read: "Remember this vividly, and often recall this educated, beautiful Egyptian's frigidity and marriage. Her eye was in the sun in the end (Neferteri). How fastinating to read a book written by a modern Egyptian woman!". You missed some of the points about culture clash; of the mid-east, transplanted into northern England and with English men.
 
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MGADMJK | 4 andere besprekingen | Sep 12, 2022 |
This book reminds me of Richardson's Pamela, where I kept on cheering on the narrator in her quest at suicide. Except Asya doesn't really attempt suicide. Oddly, though, I found myself unable to put this book down, which is a feat considering that it is a thick tome that inspires thoughts of what paraphernalia I might be able to hide within its covers given a sharp X-acto knife and some paper-cutting skills. Nonetheless I can't be too mean considering how doggedly I continued to read this thing. I've given up on shorter books.… (meer)
 
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irrelephant | 4 andere besprekingen | Feb 21, 2021 |
Read to page 268 and stopped wasting my time.
 
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kayanelson | 32 andere besprekingen | Sep 24, 2020 |

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14
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8
Leden
2,359
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#10,879
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½ 3.7
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44
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63
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