Title : The Children of Alexandria - The Forgotten Queen - Volume 1 - Françoise Chandernagor - Book

Summary :

At that time, the world was young, and Alexandria was the most beautiful city in the world. At sea level, the Most Brilliant dazzled with its whiteness. White were the soft stone terraces, the alabaster columns, the marble-paved avenues, and white was the great Lighthouse... Alexandria: jewel of an empire that Antony and Clopter would drag down with them in their fall. From the loves of the Imperator and the Queen of Egypt were born three children: Slen and Alexander, twins, a girl and a boy, brown and blond, and little Ptolemy. Ephemeral princes, who grew up in the purple and incense of the Royal Quarter with their half-brother, the child-pharaoh born to Caesar. All still so young, so fragile, when the turmoil fell upon them. Four children with a tragic destiny. Slen, the sole survivor, would never forget the annihilation of his kingdom, his dynasty, his gods. Prisoner in a foreign land, she will now live to avenge her brothers and ensure the survival of the vanquished in the world of the victors... With the writing sensitivity and novelistic force that made The King's Alley a classic, François Chandernagor captures the little-known life of the last of the Ptolemies, the Forgotten Queen. Exploring the said and unsaid of History with a erudition that does not preclude empathy, she questions a two-thousand-year-old past. A singular, breathtaking tale. A grandiose fresco.

• EAN : 9782226221315
  
• Used book
• Book in good condition
• The book matches the photo