by Gillian Bradshaw · Salamandra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478884643
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«Púrpura imperial» is the historical novel by Gillian Bradshaw, published by Salamandra in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
Demetrias, a slave in Tyre and the empire's most skilled silk weaver, is commissioned to make the purple robe reserved for the emperor. Upon completing her task, she becomes embroiled in a conspiracy to overthrow Theodosius, and her fate becomes bound to an empire shaken by palace intrigues and barbarian threats.
Originally published in English as «Imperial Purple» (1988), translated by Diana Trujillo. It closes the trilogy devoted to Byzantium, whose second part is «El faro de Alejandría».
For readers of historical fiction set in late antiquity and fans of political intrigue in the Byzantine court.
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.
