Mary Gentle: Ilario, Book Two: The Stone Golem

USA 2006, 361 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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The action sweeps Ilario, a young hermaphrodite would-be painter, from giving Caesarian birth to a daughter in Venice to befriending Pharaoh-Queen Ty-ameny in Alexandria-in-exile at Constantinople where he meets the Alexandrine castrato-by-choice spy Rekhmire and Ramiro Carrasco, Ilario's would-be assassin and later slave. A turn of fate sees a Chinese war junk taking Ilario first home to Iberia to negotiate ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Sean Greer: The Confessions of Max Tivoli

UK/USA 2004, 271 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Faber and Faber
Set in San Francisco a hundred years ago, it is the story of a man who suffers from a rare medical condition and, in a sense, lives life backwards. Max Tivoli is writing the story of his life. He is nearly seventy years old, but he looks as if he is only seven - for Max is ageing backwards. The ... Weiterlesen