Ahdaf Soueif’s novel, The Map of Love (Bloomsbury/Anchor) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999. She lives in London.
‘Outside, there is a path. A path of beaten white stone bordered by a white wall–low, but not low enough for me to see over it from here'.
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