The Drowning King

Sharing the throne of Egypt with her eleven-year-old brother Ptolemy, Cleopatra's caught in a power struggle and forced to flee during a rebel uprising, while her sister Arsinoe, who follows Cleopatra into exile, is forced to chose between betraying her family or her country.

About the author

Emily Holleman, a graduate of Yale University, spent several years as an editor for Salon -- a job she left to follow Arsinoë and her quest for the throne of Egypt. Currently based in Brooklyn, she has devoted the past three years to reading and writing about the Ptolemies and is, like Arsinoë, a younger sister. She is the author of Cleopatra's Shadows: A Fall of Egypt Novel.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Holleman
• Publisher: Little Brown USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.04.2017, delayed
• EAN: 9780316383035
• ISBN: 978-0-316-38303-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Fall of Egypt Novel; Fall of Egypt Novel
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historischer Roman, Biografischer Roman, FICTION / Historical, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, Fiction - Historical