Cleopatra : a novel /

"Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faebound and The Final Strife. You know my name, but you do not know me. Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall. Your playwrights spea...

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Main Author: El-Arifi, Saara (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, [2026]
Edition:First U.S. edition.
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Summary:"Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faebound and The Final Strife. You know my name, but you do not know me. Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall. Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods themselves. Your poets sing of my bloodlust, but I was always protecting my children. How wilfully they refuse to concede that a woman could be powerful, strategic, and divinely blessed to rule. Death will silence me no longer. This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived"--
Physical Description:xii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-337).
ISBN:9780593875643
0593875648