by Gillian Bradshaw · Salamandra Bolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498384710
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In 'The Lighthouse of Alexandria', Gillian Bradshaw transports us to the year 371 AD, where Caris of Ephesus, a young woman of noble origin, flees from an arranged marriage disguised as a eunuch. Her destination is Alexandria, where she dreams of studying medicine, an unattainable desire for a woman at that time. Despite the obstacles, Caris manages to become a doctor and approaches the highest spheres of power in a declining Roman Empire. Bradshaw constructs a fascinating plot with a detailed description of Hippocratic medicine and a rich setting in the mythical city of Alexandria, offering a novel of agile reading and great historical interest.
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.
