Author

Publication

1999 - Harvill, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

77,750 words, Guess

Page Count

311 pages

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Description

In the early days of photography, a woman painter in 1890s Egypt marries a portrait photographer and becomes so good at his profession he gets jealous, sending her into the arms of a British officer. Set in high-society Cairo under British occupation, the novel compares the two arts. By a Franco-Egyptian writer, author of Birds of Passage.

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  • The photographer's wifeHarvill1999-01-01

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