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The Alexandria Semaphore (Harvill Panther S.)
Robert Sole
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Description for The Alexandria Semaphore (Harvill Panther S.)
Paperback. Journalist Maxime Touta is the perfect eye through which to observe an Egypt poised on the brink of change. The Suez Canal is nearing completion, and Ottoman Egypt is torn between the French and the British. For Maxime the political machinations of the day are woven in with the life of his family. Translator(s): Brownjohn, J.Maxwell. Series: Harvill Panther S. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 220. Fine copy
From the calm of Alexandria in 1885, a successful journalist looks back on a dangerous and romantic period in history - Egypt's and his own. Maxime Touta, the protege of the flamboyant correspondent of the Semaphore d'Alexandrie, is the perfect eye through which to observe an Egypt poised on the brink of change. The Suez Canal - the feat of engineering that will transform her fortunes - is nearing completion, and Ottoman Egypt is torn between the French and the British. For Maxime, pursuing his dream of becoming a journalist, the political machinations of the day are woven in with ... Read more
From the calm of Alexandria in 1885, a successful journalist looks back on a dangerous and romantic period in history - Egypt's and his own. Maxime Touta, the protege of the flamboyant correspondent of the Semaphore d'Alexandrie, is the perfect eye through which to observe an Egypt poised on the brink of change. The Suez Canal - the feat of engineering that will transform her fortunes - is nearing completion, and Ottoman Egypt is torn between the French and the British. For Maxime, pursuing his dream of becoming a journalist, the political machinations of the day are woven in with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Like New
Series
Harvill Panther S.
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860469688
SKU
KSS0000593
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Ref
99-2
About Robert Sole
ROBERT SOLE was born in Cairo in 1946 and moved to France at the age of 18. He has combined his career as an author with that of journalist, and currently works for Le Monde. Chronologically, The Alexandria Semaphore is the earliest of his three novels set in nineteenth century Egypt. The Photographer's Wife and Birds of Passage are also ... Read more
Reviews for The Alexandria Semaphore (Harvill Panther S.)
"Sole allows his characters to inhabit their landscape completely... a captured moment of history" EDWARD STERN, Times Literary Supplement "Sole writes with a beguiling clarity of voice and precision of description. Though his narrator is a fictional figure, he relates his life with such realistic self-absorption and meandering detours that it reads like autobiography" ROSEMARY GORING, Sunday Herald