TY  - BOOK
AU  - Russell,Mary Doria
TI  - Dreamers of the day: a novel 
SN  - 9781400064717 (alk. paper)
AV  - PS3568.U76678 D74 2008
U1  - 813/.54 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Lawrence, T. E.
KW  - Churchill, Winston,
KW  - Bell, Gertrude Lowthian,
KW  - Women teachers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Middle East
KW  - History
KW  - 1914-1923
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Love stories
N2  - A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic comes 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, site of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, she meets Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell. With her plainspoken American opinions, she becomes a sounding board for these historic luminaries who will, in the space of a few days, invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. While neither a pawn or a participant at the conference, she is drawn into the geopolitical intrigue surrounding the conference
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