
Ahdaf’s second novel was nominated for Booker Prize, translated into dozens of languages and has sold over a million copies worldwide. The Map of Love is an epic story spanning a century of empire and resistance, memory and language.

Ahdaf’s debut novel, an epic yet personal story of a young woman in a rapidly changing world whose choices takes her between Egypt, Italy and the UK through the tumultuous contradictions and confusions of the decolonization era.

Ahdaf’s first collection of short stories, published in 1984, established her as a rising voice in the rapidly changing cultural landscape of the late 20th century.




Ahdaf’s second novel was nominated for Booker Prize, translated into dozens of languages and has sold over a million copies worldwide. The Map of Love is an epic story spanning a century of empire and resistance, memory and language.
Ahdaf’s debut novel, an epic yet personal story of a young woman in a rapidly changing world whose choices takes her between Egypt, Italy and the UK through the tumultuous contradictions and confusions of the decolonization era.
Collected short stories spanning twenty years of Ahdaf’s earlier fiction.
Ahdaf’s first collection of short stories, published in 1984, established her as a rising voice in the rapidly changing cultural landscape of the late 20th century.