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God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening - Couverture souple

De Carvalho, Mario

 
9780802137746: God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0802137741 ISBN 13 : 9780802137746
Editeur : Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001

Synopsis

Winner of the Portuguese Writers' Association Grand Prize for Fiction and the Pegasus Prize for Literature, and a best-seller in Portugal, Mario de Carvalho's A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening is a vivid and affecting historical novel set at the twilight of the Roman Empire and the dawn of the Christian era. Lucius Valerius Quintius is prefect of the fictitious city of Tarcisis, charged to defend it against menaces from without -- Moors invading the Iberian peninsula -- and from within -- the decadent complacency of the Pax Romana. Lucius's devotion to civic duty undergoes its most crucial test when Iunia Cantaber, the beautiful, charismatic leader of the outlawed Christian sect, is brought before his court. A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening is a timeless story of an era beset by radical upheaval and a man struggling to reconcile his heart, his ethics, and his civic duty.

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Éditeur
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0802137741
ISBN 13 
9780802137746
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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