The girl with braided hair : a novel

Adly, Rasha (author.). Enany, Sarah, (translator.).

Summary: "The lives of two women living centuries apart are connected by an enigmatic painting in this mesmerizing debut based on historical eventsArt 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9789774169878
ISBN: 9774169875
ISBN: 9781649030481
ISBN: 9781649030474
ISBN: 1649030487
ISBN: 1649030479
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Cairo, Egypt ; New York, NY : Hoopoe, 2020.
Copyright: �2020

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General Note:	"First published in Arabic in 2017 as Shaghaf by Arab Scientific Publishers"--Copyright page. CatMonthString:may.24 Multi-User. Subtitle from cover.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
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