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The Invisible Library

by Steen , Thorvald
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780857425416
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: General Books
  • Publisher: Seagull Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Seagull
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 176
  • Original Price: INR 599.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 360 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

The year is 323 BCE. King Alexander of macedonia—alexander the great—lies paralysed by poison in his palace in Babylon. He is thirty-two years old, had Aristotle as a mentor, and is the greatest military commander the world has ever seen. At the other end of the palace, Phyllis, a cook for Alexander Army, sits locked in a room, arrested on suspicion of being the poisoner. All of her adult life she has lived in the field—and for a long period of time was Alexander’s lover. Who has poisoned the king? Phyllis is allowed to live as long as she writes down everything she knows about Alexander. She tells a brutal story of the violent daily life in the war, about the planning of the expansion into the Arabian peninsula, about an invisible library containing marvellous manuscripts and Discoveries, and about the passion between a cook and a king. With the Invisible library, thorvald steen interweaves known and unknown, relying on facts until they run out, then building his story on what is probable, to tell the story of a little-known period in the life of one of the most renowned figures in history. The result is an existential and inspired novel that goes to the heart of the human experience are we in war, in love, during the final days of life?.

Thorvald Steen is a Norwegian writer who has published a wide range of novels, plays, collections of poems, short stories, children's books, and essays. His other books include Don Carlos, Giovanni, Constantinople, Lionheart, The Little Horse, and The Weight of Snow Crystals. James Anderson's literary translations from the Norwegian include Berlin Poplars, by Anne B. Ragde; Nutmeg, by Kristin Valla; and several books by Jostein Gaarder.

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