by Gillian Bradshaw · Círculo de Lectores, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422688068
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«El faro de Alejandría» is the historical novel by Gillian Bradshaw, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (442 pages, in Spanish).
Set in AD 371, it follows Caris of Ephesus, a young noblewoman who flees a forced marriage and travels to Alexandria disguised as a eunuch to study medicine, a dream forbidden to women. Her determination leads her to practice as a physician in a declining Roman Empire, in a plot with rich historical setting and detailed Hippocratic medicine.
Translation of the English original «The Beacon at Alexandria» by María José Gassó, with a prologue by Alberto Cousté; edition with dust jacket.
For readers of historical fiction set in the Late Roman Empire and of female protagonists who defy the restrictions of their time.
Gillian Marucha Bradshaw is an American writer of historical fiction, historical fantasy, children's literature, science fiction, and contemporary science-based novels, who lives in Britain. Her serious historical novels are often set in classical antiquity — Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Byzantine Empire, Saka and the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Imperial Rome, Sub-Roman Britain and Roman Britain. She has also written two novels set in the English Civil War.
