by Françoise Chandernagor · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226221315
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«Les enfants d'Alexandrie» is the historical novel by Françoise Chandernagor, published by Albin Michel in paperback (390 pages, in French).
Set in the Alexandria of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, the novel follows the princes of the royal court: the twins Hélios and Séléné, along with Caesarion and Ptolemy. After the fall of the city, Séléné, the only survivor of her family, grows up a prisoner in a foreign land and devotes her life to preserving the memory of her lineage.
First instalment of the series «La Reine oubliée»; the work, originally published in 2011, won the Grand Prix Palatine du Roman Historique that year.
A read for fans of historical fiction set in the ancient world and of sagas with a female protagonist.
Françoise Chandernagor is a French writer. The daughter of André Chandernagor, she is a former student of the École nationale d'administration, and she became a member of the Council of State in 1969.
