Queen of Kings - Couverture souple

Dahvana Headley, Maria

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0593067045 ISBN 13 : 9780593067048

Editeur : Bantam Press, 2011

Synopsis

Passion and seduction, witches and warriors, ancient history and mythology combine to bring the timeless story of Cleopatra to life like never before in this thrillingly original and spellbinding debut...

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Maria Dahvana Headley is the author of The Year of Yes: A Memoir, which has been translated into 9 languages and optioned for television and film. Her writing has also appeared in a number of literary anthologies plus publications such as The New York Times, Elle and the Washington Post. As a playwright, she is the creator of The Upstart Crow Project, an organization which is commissioning 37 female playwrights to adapt all the plays of Shakespeare into contemporary versions. She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and lives in Seattle, with her husband, the playwright and screenwriter Robert Schenkkan. Queen of Kings is her first novel.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Once there was a queen of Egypt ... a queen who became through magic something else ...

In 30 BC, as Octavian Caesar and his legions marched into Alexandria, Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, learned that her beloved Mark Antony had taken his own life. Desperate to save her kingdom, her husband and all she held dear, Cleopatra turned to the gods for help. She summoned Sekhmet, goddess of death and destruction, and struck a mortal bargain. And not even the wisest scholar could have foretold what would follow ...

For, in saving Antony's soul Sekhmet demands something in return: Cleopatra herself. Transformed into a shape-shifting, not-quite-human manifestation of a deity who seeks to destroy the world, Cleopatra follows Octavian back to Rome. She desires revenge, she yearns for her children ... and she craves human blood.

In Queen of Kings, meticulously researched historical fiction and the darkest of fantasy collide in this spectacular reimagining of a story we thought we knew so well.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0593067045
• ISBN 13: 9780593067048
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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