Review
Our greatest living historical novelist. (ANTHONY BURGESS )
An historical novel of awesome scope and scholarship. (OBSERVER )
Highly absorbing, rich in history, irony and erudition. (GUARDIAN )
Splendid, serene, magisterial. (SUNDAY TIMES )
An historical novel of awesome scope and scholarship. (OBSERVER )
Highly absorbing, rich in history, irony and erudition. (GUARDIAN )
Splendid, serene, magisterial. (SUNDAY TIMES )
Product Description
Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles and Confucius are among the book's characters.
About the Author
Gore Vidal has received the National Book Award, written numerous novels, short stories, plays and essays. He has been a political activist and as Democratic candidate for Congress from upstate New York, he received the most votes of any Democrat in a half-century.
