{"product_id":"9780385720113","title":"The Map of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBooker Prize Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is an extraordinary cross-cultural love story that unfurls across Egypt, England, and the United States over the course of a century. Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist, has fallen in love with a gifted and difficult Egyptian-American conductor. Shadowing her romance is the courtship of her great-grandparents Anna and Sharif nearly one hundred years before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1900 the recently widows Anna Winterbourne left England for Egypt, an outpost of the Empire roiling with political sentiment. She soon found herself enraptured by the real Egypt and in love with Sharif Pasha al-Baroudi, an Egyptian nationalist. When Isabel, in an attempt to discover the truth behind her heritage, reenacts Anna’s excursion to Egypt, the story of her great-grandparents unravels before her, revealing startling parallels for her own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining the romance and intricate narrative of a nineteenth-century novel with a very modern sense of culture and politics—both sexual and international—Ahdaf Soueif has created a thoroughly seductive and mesmerizing tale.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013145673968,"sku":"9780385720113","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780385720113_p0.jpg?v=1763695172","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780385720113","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}