by Denis Guedj · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020663922
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«Les cheveux de Bérénice» is the historical novel by Denis Guedj, published by Points in paperback (407 pages, in French).
In Ptolemaic Egypt of the 3rd century BC, Queen Berenice offers her hair to Isis so that her husband Ptolemy Euergetes may return from war. In Alexandria, Eratosthenes, director of the Great Library, must measure the Earth; an expedition travels the Nile while the court unravels in crimes, with the dwarf Obole as witness.
Subtitled «roman», the work first appeared at Seuil in 2003; this Points edition is from 2004.
For lovers of historical novels set in Ptolemaic Egypt and of the history of science.
Denis Guedj was a French novelist and a professor of the History of Science at Paris VIII University. He was born in Setif. He spent many years devising courses and games to teach adults and children math. He is the author of Numbers: The Universal Language and of the novel The Parrot's Theorem. He died in Paris.
