Kärlekens väv
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...
I solens öga
"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. ....
Map of Love
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...
In the Eye of the Sun
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.
Kairo, min stad, vår revolution
Ahdaf Soueif har skrivit bestsellern The Map of Love (som kvalificerade sig till slutomgången för Bookerpriset 1999 och översatts till över tjugo språk; på svenska "Kärlekens väv", Alhambra 2002) liksom In the Eye of the Sun ("I sol...
I Think of You
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 ...
This Is Not a Border
________________ 'This anthology will help turn your intellectual understanding of oppression into an emotional one' - New Statesman 'Thanks for being who you are and for giving us such exposure to wonderful people. Palestine is proud of you' - Suad Amiry ________________ The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008. Bringing together writers from all corners of the globe, it aims to help Palestinians break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupation, to strengthen their artistic links with the rest of the world, and to reaffirm, in the words of Edward Said, ‘the power of culture over the culture of power’. Celebrating the tenth anniversary of PalFest, This Is Not a Border is a collection of essays, poems and stories from some of the world’s most distinguished artists, responding to their experiences at this unique festival. Both heartbreaking and hopeful, their gathered work is a testament to the power of literature to promote solidarity and courage
Cairo
_____________________ An intimate telling of the wild days of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution Ahdaf Soueif was born and brought up in Cairo. When the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 erupted on January 25th, she, along with thousands of others, called Tah...
