An imperfect lens
Subtitle: a novel
By: Anne Roiphe.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: French -- Egypt -- Fiction.; Scientists -- Fiction.; Epidemics -- Fiction.; Cholera -- Fiction.; Alexandria (Egypt) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Louis Thuillier arrives in 1880s Alexandria as part of an expedition searching for the source of the cholera epidemic and falls in love with the daughter of a Jewish doctor, but their love is threatened by the epidemic and political unrest.