by Gillian Bradshaw · SALAMANDRA EDICIONES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478887255
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«El faro de Alejandría» is the historical novel by Gillian Bradshaw, published by Salamandra Ediciones in paperback (512 pages, in Spanish).
The year is 371 AD, and Caris of Ephesus, a young woman of noble birth, flees an imposed marriage and heads to Alexandria concealing her sex. She wants to study Hippocratic medicine, a trade forbidden to women; despite everything, she manages to practice the profession and move among the elites of the Roman Empire, already in full decline.
Translation by María José Gassó. This edition was published on March 16, 2001.
For readers of historical fiction with female protagonists who defy conventions in late antiquity.
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.
