by Penelope Lively · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140175936
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«Cleopatra's Sister» is the literary fiction novel by Penelope Lively, published by Penguin in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Paleontologist Howard Beamish and journalist Lucy Faulkner meet on a flight to Nairobi that lands in Callimbia, an imaginary African country, where their lives cross as a revolution breaks out. The novel interweaves their story with that of Berenice, Cleopatra's sister, and reflects on chance and destiny.
Original novel from 1993; this Penguin paperback edition sets the action in the imaginary Callimbia, between Egypt and Libya.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary romance who appreciate the intersections between history and fiction.
Dame Penelope Margaret Lively is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults. Lively has won both the Booker Prize and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books.
