by José Luis Sampedro · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401427176
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«La vieja sirena» is the historical novel by José Luis Sampedro, published by Plaza & Janés in 1998 in paperback (725 pages, in Spanish).
Set in third-century Alexandria, the novel portrays an Egypt subject to Rome and shaken by decadence, caught between official Christianity, the ancient gods, and the coexistence of magic and science. The purchase of a slave by the powerful navigator Ahram unleashes a love story with a mysterious woman who hides an almost blasphemous secret, while the philosopher Krito senses unsettling circumstances behind her.
It is the first volume of the trilogy «Los círculos del tiempo».
For readers of historical and symbolic fiction with an interest in Roman Egypt and in stories of love and power.
José Luis Sampedro Sáez was a Spanish economist and writer who advocated an economy "more humane, more caring, able to help develop the dignity of peoples". Academician of the Real Academia Española since 1990, he was the recipient of the Order of Arts and Letters of Spain, the Menéndez Pelayo International Prize (2010) and the Spanish Literature National Prize (2011). He became an inspiration for the anti-austerity movement in Spain.
