Author: Bernardine Evaristo
Year: 2001
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Poetry, Chick lit, Historical fiction
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9780142001714
0142001716 |
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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List):
Londinium, 211 AD. A city of slum tenements and sumptuous villas, of orgy queens, drag queens and drama queens. A city where the currency is often sex, where children go to work at age five, where marriage is a career move. In this bustling city lives Zuleika, the feisty, precocious daughter of Sudanese immigrants-made-good. Married off at eleven to a rich Roman who is three times her age and usually away on business, Zuleika drifts about his villa, bored, or sneaks out to see her old friends. Then one night at the theater, she catches the eye of the visiting Roman Emperor Septimus Severus.
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