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In the Eye of the Sun
Book Description
Octavo (233 x 150mm), pp. [8], 792. (Margins very slightly darkened.) Original blue boards, spine lettered and decorated with publisher’s device in gilt, blue endpapers, dustwrapper, not price-clipped. (Extremities very lightly bumped, dustwrapper minimally creased at edges.) A very good, bright copy. Provenance: loosely-inserted publisher’s press release, folded for posting.
Dealer Notes
Following Aisha (1983), In the Eye of the Sun was Soueif’s second publication. A narrative about a young Egyptian woman and her experiences in Egypt and, as a student, in England, In the Eye of the Sun is ‘a story of what it is to be divided, poised between two lives’, echoing the author’s own experiences, as well as ‘a story about the changing relationship between Egypt and Great Britain in the twentieth century. It is a story about the history of the post-imperial Middle East during the last thirty disturbed and bloody years and about how historical events touch the lives of individuals. It is also a love story, a story about growing up, and a story about women’ (publisher’s press release). Soueif’s 1999 novel The Map of Love was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
This is a review copy containing a loosely-inserted publisher’s press release for the book, announcing its publication on 25 June 1992; it also appears to be an early printing, which has a line of printer’s instructions on the part-title for section IV (p. 127) – these were presumably removed in later issues.
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