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The photographer's wife / Robert Solé ; translated from the French by John Brownjohn.
- Title
- The photographer's wife / Robert Solé ; translated from the French by John Brownjohn.
- Author
- Solé, Robert.
- Publication
- London : Harvill Press, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ3989.2.S62 M3613 1999 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 311 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Mamelouka. English
- Alternative Title
- Mamelouka.
- Subject
- Wives > Egypt > History > 19th century > Fiction
- Europeans > Egypt > Social life and customs > Fiction
- Photographers > Egypt > History > 19th century > Fiction
- Women photographers > Egypt > History > 19th century > Fiction
- Women photographers > Khartoum > History > 19th century > Fiction
- Egypt > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction
- Khartoum (Sudan) > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- History
- Historical fiction
- ISBN
- 1860465498
- 1860465501 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 40980167
- SCSB-12462524
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library