The photographer's wife
By: Robert Solé ; translated from the French by John Brownjohn.
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: Harvill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Spouses -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction; Europeans -- Egypt -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Photographers -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction; Egypt -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Mamelouka.
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.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain in 1999 by The Harvill Press ; This paperback edition first published in 2000 by The Harvill Press"--t.p. verso.