الزوجة المكسيكية

The novel brings back the characters of Yusuf Idris's novel The White Woman and tells the little-known love story and marriage of a prominent Egyptian writer and a young Mexican woman, a daughter of the muralist Diego Rivera. Yahya Mustafa Taha and Ruth tell it in turn, between Cairo, Vienna and Mexico, in 1953 and 1954: two cultures and two ambitions collide in love, jealousy and art, while Egypt's politics waver between democracy and dictatorship, press freedom and censorship, and a tragedy strikes Ruth's family in Mexico. Real politicians and artists from Egypt and abroad appear alongside the fictional couple.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

320 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Politics, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Egypt, Austria, Mexico, 1953–1954

First published

2018 by Dar al-Shorouk

Author's age

64 when first published

ISBN

9789770934876 (original)