by Gillian Bradshaw · Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266027441
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«Le Phare d'Alexandrie» is the historical novel by Gillian Bradshaw, published by Pocket in paperback (505 pages, in French).
In the year 371, Charis, a young woman from Ephesus passionate about medicine, lives in a society that forbids women from practising it. Disguised as a eunuch, she flees to Alexandria, where she trains with a Jewish doctor; she then works in a military hospital and falls prisoner to the Goths, hiding her identity and her feelings.
The original English title is The Beacon at Alexandria, a novel originally published in 1986. The French edition has 505 pages.
For readers of historical fiction and romances set in the ancient world, with a female protagonist.
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.
