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The girl with braided hair : a novel

ʻAdlī, Rashā, author, Enany, Sarah, translator

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\"The lives of two women living centuries apart are connected by an enigmatic painting in this mesmerizing debut based on historical events. Art historian, Yasmine, is restoring an unsigned portrait of a strikingly beautiful girl from the Napoleonic Era, when she discovers that the artist has embedded a lock of hair into the painting, something highly unusual. The mysterious painting came into the museum's possession without record, and Yasmine becomes consumed by the secret concealed within this captivating work. Meanwhile, at the close of the French Campaign in Egypt, sixteen-year-old Zeinab, the daughter of a prominent sheikh, is drawn into French high society when Napoleon himself requests her presence. Enamored by the foreign customs of the Europeans, she finds herself on a dangerous path, one that may ostracize her from her family and culture. Seamlessly merging fiction with history, art, and politics, modern day Cairo with its opulent past, this compelling story of two women caught between worlds and entangled in matters of the heart launches an entrancing new literary voice.\"--Provided by publisher

• Publisher: Hoopoe, an imprint of AUC Press
• Subject: French Occupation of Egypt (Egypt : 1798-1801) / 1798-2099 / Art historians Fiction. / Arabic fiction 21st century Translations into English. / Man-woman relationships Fiction. / Historiens d'art Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Relations entre hommes et femmes Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Art historians. / Arabic fiction. / Egypt History French occupation, 1798-1801 Fiction. / Égypte Histoire 1798-1801 (Occupation française) Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Egypt.
• ISBN: 9789774169878, 9774169875

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PJ7910.D56 S5313 2020	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE