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Art historian Yasmine has been working on 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 sets out to uncover 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherT.H.E. American University in Cairo Press
ISBN-139789774169878
eBay Product ID (ePID)16046638551
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Girl with Braided Hair
AuthorRasha Adly
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterature, Lifestyle, Books
Publication Year2020
GenreHistorical
Number of Pages336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height205mm
Item Width130mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorRasha Adly
Country/Region of ManufactureEgypt