Dreamers of the day
Subtitle: a novel
By: Mary Doria Russell.
Edition: Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780345485557
Subjects: Lawrence, T. E. -- 1888-1935 -- Fiction; Churchill, Winston, -- 1874-1965 -- Fiction; Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, -- 1868-1926 -- Fiction; Women teachers -- Fiction; Middle East -- History -- 1914-1923 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic comes into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel, site of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, she meets Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell. With her plainspoken American opinions, she becomes a sounding board for these historic luminaries who will, in the space of a few days, invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. While neither a pawn or a participant at the conference, she is drawn into the geopolitical intrigue surrounding the conference.
Notes: Includes "A Reader's Guide" (p. [255]-270).