I Think of You

Ahdaf Soueif

Bloomsbury Publishing, Feb 19, 2007 - Fiction - 192 pages

In these selected stories from her collections Aisha and Sandpiper, Ahdaf Soueif writes about love and displacement in prose that is delicately nuanced and acutely observed. These are achingly lyrical stories, resonant and richly woven. But they always retain an edginess as they explore areas of tension - where women and men are ensnared by cultural and social mores and prescribed notions of ‘love', where the place you are is not the place you want to be. She delivers her characters with infinite tenderness and compassion as they inhabit a world of lost opportunities, unfulfilled love and remembrance of times past.

About the author

Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo. She is the author of Aisha, Sandpiper, In the Eye of the Sun and the bestselling novel The Map of Love which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999. She has translated I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti from Arabic into English. She also is a journalist and commentator and her work is syndicated throughout the world, and a collection of her journalism, Mezzaterra, was published in 2004.

Bibliographic information

• Title: I Think of You
• Author: Ahdaf Soueif
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007
• ISBN: 0747588198, 9780747588191
• Length: 192 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language