This novel, set in Egypt is an engrossing tale of class conflict and family betrayal. Charles Austen is brought up on his father’s cotton plantation in Alexandria and has always led a privileged life, until his world is turned upside down. He falls in love with Karima Ismail, a servant girl who aspires to a singing career and their forbidden love affair is destined to end in tragedy. Charles is killed in a car accident and Karima, pregnant with Charles’s baby is hastily married off to an older business man Munir, who raises the baby Nadia, as his own. In 1953 two-year old Nadia, Karima's daughter disappears. This story entertwines the family’s fate with the political situation in Eygpt, including the Suez crisis and the war in Sinai in 1973. A thought provoking and fast-paced story with sympathic characters.
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