Title: Love in Exile

Author: Bahaa Taher (Egyptian)

Translator: Xiang Peike

Publisher: Sino-Culture Press

Edition: First Edition, May 2018

Format: 16 - mo, Soft - bound Hardcover

Printed Sheets: 13.75

Word Count: 140,000 words

ISBN: 9787507548822

Price: 38.00 CNY

Set against the backdrop of war, this book tells a poignant love story. It begins with an encounter at a press conference. The protagonist and the female lead, Brigitte, who has a significant age difference from him, start as strangers, fall deeply in love, and eventually have no choice but to part. Interwoven in the story are the protagonist's experiences in his era and the numerous problems faced by refugees at that time.

Bahaa Taher is a renowned Egyptian writer. He was born in Upper Egypt and graduated from the History Department of Cairo University. He participated in founding the second cultural channel program of the Egyptian Radio and engaged in drama reviews. He successively went to Rome, New Delhi, Paris, Nairobi, etc., to work as a translator for several international organizations, and later transferred to work at the headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva. His major works include short - story collections such as The Proposal, I Dreamed of You Yesterday, I Am the King, I'm Coming; and novels such as East of the Date Palm Grove, She Spoke in the Morning, Love in Exile, and Sunset Oasis. Among them, Love in Exile won the Best Novel Award at the Cairo Book Fair of that year, was hailed as a new model of realist novels, and also won the highest literary award in Egypt - the State Encouragement Award for Literature. His works are characterized by a rigorous structure, fresh language, myth - like imagination, and are permeated with the social customs of Egypt and the Arab world.

Xiang Peike (1936 - 2010), a professor, was engaged in the teaching and research of Arabic language and literature, as well as Arab - Islamic culture for a long time. In 1962, he started teaching Arabic at Beijing Foreign Studies University. In 2006, he was employed as a professor at Communication University of China Nanjing College. He once studied at Cairo University in Egypt, was dispatched to Kuwait three times to work as a translator for the sports coaching team, and later taught at a technical school in Yemen and the University of Nouakchott in Mauritania. His main works include Elementary Arabic, Arabic Listening and Speaking Course, etc. His translations include Volume 3 of A History of Arab - Islamic Culture (co - translation), The Palestine - Israel Declaration of Principles on Interim Self - Government Arrangements, and he also served as the responsible reviser of Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Main Characters / 001

Chapter 1: Encounter at the Press Conference / 003

Chapter 2: The Distant Past is Dead / 017

Chapter 3: I Will Speak Tonight / 037

Chapter 4: A Fragile Butterfly / 053

Chapter 5: You're So Beautiful / 069

Chapter 6: Reciting Poems Amidst Drumbeats / 087

Chapter 7: A Warm Night in the Charming Park / 113

Chapter 8: Let Today Pass Slowly / 125

Chapter 9: This is the Cave of Love / 149

Chapter 10: Children of the World / 169

Chapter 11: The Standing Mountain / 185