Cleopatra Dismounts
A Novel
Carmen Boullosa is one of Latin America's most original voices, and in Cleopatra Dismounts she has written a remarkable reconstruction of the life of the Egyptian queen, who famously died in Marc Antony's arms. But is this really the true Cleopatra?Through the intervention of Cleopatra's scribe and informer Diomedes, Boullosa creates two previous Cleopatras, and in effect two deliriously wild other lives for the young monarch-a girl escaping the intrigues of royal society, and the young queen who is carried across the sea on the back of a magical bull, to live among the Amazons and become part of their society.Magical, multifaceted, and rippl…
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Weitere Autoren: Hargreaves, Geoff (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8021-3979-5
- EAN: 9780802139795
- Produktnummer: 9972011
- Verlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.6 cm 270 g
- Gewicht: 270
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