by Gillian Bradshaw · Planeta DeAgostini · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467462821
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«El faro de Alejandría» is the historical novel by Gillian Bradshaw, published by Planeta DeAgostini in hardback (502 pages, in Spanish).
The protagonist, Caris, flees an arranged marriage in Constantinople and, disguised as a man, travels to Alexandria to study medicine. There she makes her way as a physician in a time of political and religious upheaval in the late Roman Empire, with the Lighthouse of Alexandria as a backdrop.
The Spanish edition, translated by María José Gassó, comes from the English original «The Beacon at Alexandria» (1986) and was published in 2008 in the collection «Lo mejor de la nueva novela histórica».
For readers of historical fiction set in late antiquity, with a female protagonist and an adventurous tone.
Gillian Marucha Bradshaw is an American writer of historical fiction, historical fantasy, children's literature, science fiction, and contemporary science-based novels, who lives in Britain. Her serious historical novels are often set in classical antiquity — Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Byzantine Empire, Saka and the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Imperial Rome, Sub-Roman Britain and Roman Britain. She has also written two novels set in the English Civil War.
