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Ahdaf Soueif

    23 de marzo de 1950

    Ahdaf Soueif es una novelista y comentarista egipcia cuyo trabajo profundiza en lecturas matizadas de la historia y la política egipcias, explorando a menudo la experiencia palestina a través de la ficción y la no ficción. Aunque escribe principalmente en inglés, sus lectores de habla árabe encuentran ecos de su lengua materna en su prosa. Más allá de sus contribuciones literarias, Soueif es una voz cultural y política importante, reconocida por sus perspicaces comentarios y su papel en la iniciación de festivales literarios. Su escritura ofrece una perspectiva distintiva, entrelazando la reflexión personal con la observación social y política más amplia.

    I think of you
    Aisha
    In the Eye of the Sun
    Sandpiper
    The map of love
    Baghdad Burning
    • I think of you

      • 180 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      Selected stories from her previous books Sandpiper and Aisha collected together for the first time

      I think of you2007
      3,2
    • Baghdad Burning

      Girl Blog from Iraq

      • 320 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      In 'Baghdad Burning', a young Iraqi woman, using the pseudonym Riverbend, gives a human face to war and occupation. In this hard-hitting journal, she describes the day-to-day realities of life in post-war Iraq, which for her family and neighbours means regular power-cuts, bombings, kidnappings and raids.

      Baghdad Burning2006
      4,2
    • 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.

      The map of love2000
      3,8
    • Sandpiper

      • 160 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      From the Man Booker Nominee author of The Map of Love. Sandpiper is a collection of stories which provide insight into Egyptian and Western life and the links between them, looking at relationships within and across continents. People from many places - England, Alexandria, Istanbul - pass through defining crises in their relations with others. Most of them are women, and most find themselves in countries other than their own, where language, culture and prescribed emotions such as 'love' create confusion. New understandings are registered in intensely recalled moments and sensations.

      Sandpiper1997
      3,6
    • The great English novel about Egypt, which is also the great Egyptian novel about England.

      In the Eye of the Sun1997
      3,7
    • Aisha

      • 194 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      By the author of In The Eye Of The Sun, this superb collection of stories is united by the central character, an Egyptian girl growing up in both Egypt and Britain. The stories are populated by the characters she meets, each moving in their own world as Aisha grows up and travels in Cairo and London.

      Aisha1985
      3,5