FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL,WOMAN,OTHER'Wildly entertaining,deeply affecting'Ali SmithLondinium,AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. She's a back-alley firecracker,a scruffy Nubian babe with tangled hair and bare feet - and she's just been married off a fat old Roman. Life as a teenage bride is no joke but Zeeks is a born survivor. She knows this city like the back of her hand: its slave girls and drag queens,its shining villas and rotting slums. She knows how to get by. Until one day she catches the eye of the most powerful man on earth,the Roman Emperor,and her trouble really starts...Silver-tongued and merry-eyed,this is a story in song and verse,a joyful mash-up of today and yesterday. Kaleidoscoping distant past and vivid present,The Emperor's Babe asks what it means to be a woman and to survive in this thrilling,brutal,breathless world.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241989845Number of pages: 272Weight: 149 gDimensions: 178 x 114 x 16 mm
Bernardine Evaristo
An award-winning novelist,poet,dramatist,essayist and activist,Bernardine Evaristo is the joint winner of The Booker Prize 2019 for Girl,Woman,Other and the first Black female author to top the fiction chart in the UK.
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