Alexandria Semaphore; Author: Sole, Robert; Author: Translator Brownjohn, John; Paperback (B Format)

Author: Sole, Robert; Author: Translator Brownjohn, John
Paperback (B Format)
294 pages
Published: June 2002
Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
ISBN: 186046968X

Maxime Touta, the protege of the flamboyant correspondent of the Semaphore d'Alexandrie, is the perfect eye through which to observe an Egypt poised on the brink of change. The Suez Canal--the feat of engineering that will transform her fortunes--is nearing completion, and Ottoman Egypt is torn between the French and the British. For Maxime, pursuing his dream of becoming a journalist,the political machinations of the day are woven in with the exuberant nature of life in the Touta clan--and his own passion for Nada, once a Syrian orphan under the protection of his father, now the beautiful wife of another man.From the calm of Alexandria in 1885 a successful journalist looks back on a dangerous and romantic period in history - Egypt's and his own. From the author of 'The Photographer's Wife' and 'Birds of Passage'. Translated from the French by John Brownjohn.Journalist Maxime Touta is the perfect eye through which to observe an Egypt poised on the brink of change. The Suez Canal is nearing completion, and Ottoman Egypt is torn between the French and the British. For Maxime the political machinations of the day are woven in with the life of his family.