The dream of Scipio  -  Iain Pears

KORTE INHOUD

The novel follows three main characters separated by hundreds of years, all of whom center their activities in and around what is now Provence and share at least their interpretations of the same philosophy. Manlius is a Roman Gaul in the waning days of the rapidly-Christianizing western empire of the fourth century, a landowner and scholar, who enjoys hosting his friends and discussing erudite matters, but whose region faces invasion by armies of Burgundians and Goths. Olivier de Noyen is a poet and minor ...
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2002 Uitgever: Jonathan Cape 393 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0224063138 ISBN-13: 9780224063135