The heroine of this novel, a young Egyptian woman from Cairo's elite academic world, meets and marries a local computer consultant and goes to England to do a postgraduate at a Northern university. The story moves between Egypt, Athens, Beirut and England and provides an interesting insight into relations within her family and marriage. I found it gripping, moving and sometimes even comic. Don't be put off by its unusual length.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 7 February 2001 ) |
