The Emperor's Babe

Type

Book

Authors

Bernardine Evaristo

ISBN 10

0142001716

ISBN 13

9780142001714

Tags

Historical, Contemporary, Literary

Description

Bernardine Evaristo’s tale of forbidden love in bustling third-century London is an intoxicating cocktail of poetry, history, and fiction. Feisty, precocious Zuleika, daughter of Sudanese immigrants-made-good and restless teenage bride of a rich Roman businessman, craves passion and excitement. When she begins an affair with the emperor, Septimius Severus, she knows her life will never be the same. Streetwise, seductive, and lyrical, with a lively, affecting heroine, The Emperor’s Babe is a strikingly imaginative historical novel-in-verse. - from Amzon

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