Ahdaf Soueif

eBook, ePUB

In the Eye of the Sun (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

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.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 2.56MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo. She is the author of Aisha, Sandpiper, In the Eye of the Sun and the bestselling novel The Map of Love, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999. Her collection of cultural and political essays, Mezzaterra, was published in 2004, as was her translation of I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti. She has been awarded the Blue Metropolis Literary Prize (in Montreal) and the Constantin Cavafis Award (in Cairo and Athens), and is also the founder of the Palestine Festival of Literature, PalFest, for which she was awarded the Hay Medal for Festivals in 2017.

Ahdaf Soueif is also a journalist and her work is syndicated throughout the world. For the last five years she has been a key political commentator on Egypt and Palestine, and throughout the 2011 uprisings in Cairo Adhaf Soueif reported front the ground for the Guardian, and appeared on television and radio. She lives in London and Cairo.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 800
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408838280
• Artikelnr.: 38284220