From the best-selling author of "The Map of Love," here is a bracing firsthand account of the Egyptian revolution--told with the narrative instincts of a novelist, the gritty insights of an activist, and the long perspective of a native Cairene.
Since January 25, 2011, when thousands of Egyptian[...]
Booker Prize Finalist
"Sweeping and evocative--. An unconventional love story."--The Times (London)
With her first novel, In the Eye of the Sun, Ahdaf Soueif garnered comparisons to Tolstoy, Flaubert, and George Eliot. In her latest novel, which was shortlisted for Britain's prestigio[...]
This is a love story, a story about growing up, a story about what its like to be a women (East and West), a story about the history of the post-imperial Middle East during the last 30 years or so, perplexed and bloody years, and a story about home.[...]
In these selected stories from her collections "Aisha" and "Sandpiper", Ahdaf Soueif writes about love and displacement in prose that is delicately nuanced and acutely observed. These are achingly lyrical stories, resonant and richly woven. But they always retain an edginess as they explore areas of[...]
Ahdaf Soueif - romanförfattare, kommentator och aktivist - berättar i Kairo, min stad, vår revolution"´ om sin stad och sin resa genom den revolution som ritat om framtidens karta. Genom berättelser av såväl privat som allmän natur skissar Soueif en bild av revolutionen som både är djupt [...]
"Redan med Aisha (1983) stod det klart att Ahdaf Soueif var en berättartalang att räkna med. Flera romaner sedan dess, bl.a. Kärlekens väv (2002), bekräftade omdömet. I solens öga, som kom ut för mer än 10 år sedan, är nu äntligen översatt. ... "I solens öga" handlar om kulturskillnade[...]
Efter Ahdaf Soueifs internationellt uppskattade roman In the Eye of the Sun, (utkommer på Alhambra våren 2003) undrade många hur hon skulle klara av en värdig uppföljare. Kärlekens väv är hennes svar ? och utan tvivel är den ännu ett angloarabiskt mästerverk.
Ahdaf Soueif är f[...]
A powerful portrayal of the Egyptian Revolution, telling the story with striking images of art that turned Egypt's walls into a visual testimony of bravery and resistance. Even the army tanks that rolled onto Tahrir Square were immediately adorned with graffiti. This survey of current Egyptian stree[...]