A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore
A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore
- ISBN 13:
9789927118524
- ISBN 10:
992711852X
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 07/26/2016
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Qatar Fndtn Pub
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Summary
It's the dawn of the twentieth century, and Britain's glittering Empire extends far and wide, full of the dangerously seductive promise of untapped riches.
Englishman Howard Carter's artistic talent takes him on an expedition attempting to locate Tutankhamen's tomb in Egypt. There, amidst growing unrest between the tyrannical British rulers and the so-called “barbarians,” he meets Aisha. At first glance, modest, stammering Howard has nothing whatsoever in common with Aisha, the young Egyptian whose profile bears more than a passing resemblance to Nefertiti's beautiful face as depicted on the Pharaonic relics Howard loves so much. A bewildering mix of contradictions, Aisha is a village girl, yet she speaks four languages; Muslim, yet she has a tattoo of the cross on her arm; a stranger, yet with an achingly familiar face.
A page-turning gallop through some of the most momentous occasions in recent world history, CLOUDY DAY ON A WESTERN SHORE also explores questions of national identity and the implications of European intervention--for better or worse--in the discovery and exploration of some of the most beautiful treasures on earth today.