Dreamers of the Day - Softcover

Russell, Mary Doria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345485556 ISBN 13: 9780345485557

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2008

Synopsis

With prose as graceful and effortless as a seductive float down the Nile, Mary Doria Russell illuminates the long, rich history of the Middle East with a story that brilliantly elucidates today's headlines.

Agnes Shanklin, a forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio, has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference convenes, she is freed for the first time from her mother's withering influence and finds herself being wooed by a handsome, mysterious German. At the same time, Agnes-with her plainspoken American opinions-is drawn into the company of Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell, who will, in the space of a few days, redraw the world map to create the modern Middle East. As they change history, Agnes too will find her own life transformed forever.

About this title

Review:

"A brilliant writer...warm, wise and wonderful" (Karen Joy Fowler)

Book Description:

The stunning new historical novel from the bestselling author of A Thread of Grace and The Sparrow.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0345485556
• ISBN 13: 9780345485557
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288