by Ahdaf Soueif

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, THE MAP OF LOVE is a novel about two women and their relationships with problematical men. In 1901 an English widow named Anna Winterbourne falls in love with an Egyptian, and in 2001 Isabel Parkman, Anna's descendant, travels to Egypt to research Anna's story and to gain insight into her own love for an Egyptian-American musician. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.