The emperor's babe: a novel
General fiction, Historical fiction
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Through the bustling city of Londinium we follow Zuleika - feisty and precocious daughter of Sudanese immigrants made good. Married at the age of eleven to Felix, a rich Roman three times her age perpetually away on business, Zuleika drifts… about his villa, bored, until one night several years later when Septimius Severus, the Roman Emperor, newly arrived in town, spots her at the theatre... The story is told through a fusion of poetry and fiction, history and myth. Descriptions of sex. 2001.
Title Details
ISBN
9780241141144
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Copyright Date
2001
Book number
2423558
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
Joan Walker
Duration
3 hours 55 minutes 31 seconds
Audio producer
Royal National Institute of the Blind, 2005.