Cleopatra

A groundbreaking reimagining of an iconic queen, from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of FAEBOUND YOU KNOW MY NAME. BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME. Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love''s thrall. Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods themselves. Your poets sing of my blood-lust, but I was always protecting my children. How wilfully they refuse to concede that a woman could be powerful, strategic, divinely blessed to rule. Death will silence me no longer. This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived. From one of the most remarkable and acclaimed storytellers of her generation, the #1 bestselling author of FAEBOUND and THE FINAL STRIFE, this epic and groundbreaking new novel shows us Cleopatra on her own terms.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Saara El-Arifi
• Verlag: The Borough Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 26.02.2026
• EAN: 9780008697211
• ISBN: 978-0-00-869721-1
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 240 mm x 21 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; NON-CLASSIFIABLE, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Historical / Ancient, FICTION / Magical Realism, FICTION / Alternative History, Egypt, Narrative theme: Politics, Historical fantasy, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Magical Realism, Fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Feminist, Ancient Egypt, BCE to c 500 CE, Stationery and miscellaneous items, Miscellaneous items, c 332 BCE to c 630 CE (Egyptian Greco-Roman period), Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction