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| Author | Juliana Maio |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | World War II |
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| Set in | Cairo, Egypt |
| Publisher | Greenleaf Book Group |
Publication date | March 2014 |
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| ISBN | 978-1626340671 |
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]
