The Map of Love

Ahdaf Soueif

From Shelf: The Booker Prize 1999 Shortlist

A vivid and passionate love story from the Booker Shortlisted author

In 1900 Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt where she falls in love with Sharif, and Egyptian Nationalist utterly committed to his country's cause. A hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, an American divorcee and a descendant of Anna and Sharif, goes to Egypt, taking with her an old family trunk, inside which are found notebooks and journals which reveal Anna and Sharif's secret.