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'Utterly engrossing, vivid and honest' - Emma Donoghue 'A novel of
ancient times for our times.' - Jim Crace Sparrow tells the story
of Jacob, son of no one, last survivor of an abandoned British
Roman town. Raised in a brothel on the Spanish coast in the waning
years of the Roman Empire, a boy of no known origin creates his own
identity. He is Sparrow, who sings without reason and can fly from
trouble. His world is a kitchen, the herb-scented garden, then the
loud and dangerous tavern, and finally the mysterious upstairs
where the 'wolves' - prostitutes of every ethnic background from
the far reaches of the empire - do their mysterious business. When
not being told stories by his beloved 'mother' Euterpe, he runs
errands for her lover the cook, while trying to avoid the blows of
their brutal overseer or the machinations of the chief wolf,
Melpomene. A hard fate awaits Sparrow, one that involves suffering,
murder, mayhem, and the scattering of the little community that has
been his whole world. Through meticulous research and bold
imagination, Hynes brings the entirety of the Roman city of
Carthago Nova - its markets, temples, taverns of the lowly and
mansions of the rich - to vivid life. Sparrow recreates a lost
world of the last of old pagan Rome as its codes and morals give
way before the new religion of Christianity, and introduces readers
to one of the most powerfully affecting and memorable characters of
recent fiction.
General
Imprint: |
Picador
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
May 2023 |
Authors: |
James Hynes
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Dimensions: |
234 x 153mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
464 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5290-9239-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Historical fiction
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LSN: |
1-5290-9239-6 |
Barcode: |
9781529092394 |
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