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From a refreshingly antic new voice in historical fiction, this epically entertaining, irresistibly madcap novel re-creates an ancient family whose obsessions and dysfunctions would change the world, for better or worse. They were the last pharaohs to rule Egypt. Ptolemy Soter (putative half-brother of Alexander the Great-his mother may have been raped by Alexander's father) begins it all when he takes the kingdom of the Nile as his share of the empire and brings along Alexander's carefully embalmed corpse for luck. Soon enough, Ptolemy, in a kind of ancient corporate takeover, becomes pharoah, the living god of Egypt, first in what he hopes will be a long line of Ptolemies. Scheming priests, conniving wives, errant sons and daughters (some of whom have a thing for each other), and an epic's worth of battles and intrigue make for a tale so rich in upheaval and mayhem that perhaps only our narrator, the irreverent and disapproving Thoth, Egyptian god of Wisdom and Patron of Scribes, could do it justice.

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• Plný název: The Ptolemies
• Autor: Duncan Sprott
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 462
• EAN: 9781400075102
• ISBN: 1400075106
• ID: 12051071
• Nakladatelství: Vintage Publishing
• Hmotnost: 354 g
• Rozměry: 204 × 132 × 28 mm
• Datum vydání: June 2005

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