City of the Sun (Maio novel)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

City of the Sun
City of the Sun (Maio novel).jpg
First edition book cover
AuthorJuliana Maio
LanguageEnglish
SubjectWorld War II
Genre
  • Historical fiction
  • spy fiction
  • romance
Set inCairo, Egypt
PublisherGreenleaf Book Group
Publication date
March 2014
Media type
  • Print
  • digital
ISBN978-1626340671

City of the Sun is a novel by Juliana Maio,[1] published by Greenleaf Book Group[2] in March 2014. The novel, which blends historical fiction[3] with spy fiction and romantic fiction, is set in Cairo, Egypt in 1941 during the North Africa Campaign of World War II.[4] Though a work of fiction, it centers around true historical events and "connects the root of much of today's turmoil in the Middle East with the Axis-Allied struggle for control of the Suez Canal and the early history of the Muslim Brotherhood."[5]

The author was born to a Jewish family in Heliopolis, a suburb of Cairo. Her family was expelled in 1956 during the Suez Crisis, when she was three years old.[6] Maio grew up and was educated in Paris, France[7] before her family emigrated to the United States.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Elgrably, Jordan. "A Celebration of the Jews the World Forgot". LA Times.
  2. ^ Silverman, Mary (6 August 2014). "Summer Read: "City of the Sun"". Desert Magazine. Gannett. The Desert Sun. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  3. ^ Brummett, Chad (29 October 2014). "Author Juliana Maio releases new book". KQRE News 13. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  4. ^ "'City of the Sun' Reveals True Middle East: Juliana Maio Speaks". huffpost.com. 5 January 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Fiction Book Review". Publishers Weekly.
  6. ^ Maio, Juliana. "Five Reasons Why Everybody Should Write a Book". Huffington Post.
  7. ^ Brawarsky, Sandee. "The Romance Of Cairo: Juliana Maio's 'City of the Sun'". The Jewish Week.
  8. ^ Evans, Mark. "A Great Passion, A Great Story". Historical Novel Society.

External links[]


Stub icon

This article about a historical novel of the 2010s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page.

  • v
  • t
Stub icon

This article about a romance novel of the 2010s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page.

  • v
  • t
Retrieved from ""