Dreamers of the Day: A Novel

Dreamers of the Day: A Novel
- 1ST EDITION
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 todayâ€™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 motherâ€™s withering influence and finds herself being wooed by a handsome, mysterious German. At the same time, Agnesâ€“with her plainspoken American opinionsâ€“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.
Country USA
Brand Ballantine Books
Manufacturer Ballantine Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780345485557
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2008-12-16
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780345485557

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