by Gillian Bradshaw · Quinteto · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495971661
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«El faro de Alejandría» is the historical fiction novel by Gillian Bradshaw, published by Quinteto in paperback (640 pages, in Spanish).
Caris of Ephesus, a noblewoman forced to marry the cruel governor Festinus, flees to Alexandria in AD 371 disguised as a eunuch. Her dream of studying medicine, forbidden to women, leads her to practice medicine and to approach power in the twilight of the Roman Empire, with Hippocratic medicine as a backdrop.
Translated by María José Gassó, it is the Spanish edition of «The Beacon at Alexandria», a novel originally published in 1986. It belongs to the Quinteto collection (no. 58).
A work for readers of historical fiction interested in late antiquity and in female protagonists who defy the conventions of their time.
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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.
