The Mexican Wife
Iman Yehia
The Mexican Wife is a retelling of the great writer Youssef Idris’ novel Al-Baydaa (The White Woman), a complex love story about an Egyptian man, Yehia (Youssef Idris) and a Mexican girl named Ruth, the daughter of the famous mural painter, Diego Rivera (Idris’ real life wife). Narrated by Yehia and Ruth, it is set between Cairo, Vienna and Mexico in the early 1950s, mixing reality and fantasy against the backdrop of each country’s struggles.
Publisher
Dar al-Shorouk
Nomination
2019 Longlist
Iman Yehia
Country of origin Egypt
About the author
Iman Yehia is an Egyptian writer and translator, born in 1954. He obtained a PhD in surgery of the urinary tract from the Soviet Union in 1987, and works as a doctor and lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine in the Suez Canal University. He has translated a number of works from Russian and English into Arabic and has published articles in Egyptian and Arab newspapers. He is the author of two novels: Writing with the Scalpel (2013) and The Mexican Wife (2018).