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This audacious novel opens with Ayn as she reflects on the act of writing and wonders if love alone is sufficient subject for a narrative. Haltingly at first, she weaves the tale of her love affair with Ali with witty asides about her own writing, and the limits and self-deceptions that are at the heart of all storytelling. As the story finds its way, through sea and desert, and the realms of mysticism and magic, we learn of a passionate, volatile relationship, one severely tested through countless separations, of Ayn's relationships with other men, including her intense encounters with a Corsican ex-convict, and of her own desire to escape the confines of marriage, even to the man she loves. Disarmingly candid in the telling, So You May See leads us gently into a revolt, a fierce rebuttal of conventional romantic literature and an indictment of the sexual mores and unquestioned attitudes to marriage and relationships in contemporary Egypt.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: So You May See
• Author: Mona Prince
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 168
• EAN: 9789774164446
• ISBN: 977416444X
• ID: 04372418
• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
• Weight: 404 g
• Dimensions: 209 × 149 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. April 2011

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