Title: 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.
Subjects: Europeans, Fiction, History, Photographers, Social life and customs, Spouses, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general
Places: Egypt
Time periods: 19th century