Deservedly a best-seller in 1992, this merits a re-read. Asya, from the privileged academic world of Cairo, chooses to do her PhD in Northern England where, estranged from her husband, she falls for the dreadful Gerald. East-West tensions, breakdowns in communication and love, losing and finding identity, juxtaposed with the parallel universe of modern Cairo and the warm world of Asya's close-knit family - all sensitively and engrossingly explored. A book to live inside.
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 47 September 2008 ) |
