Awake - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Harald Voetmann, Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen (Translator)Publish date:2021-09-21Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811230810ISBN-10:811230813UPC:9780811230810Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, HistoricalBook Topic:Denmark, AncientSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCHHFN67E1
Awake
In a shuttered bedroom in ancient Italy, the sleepless Pliny the Elder lies in bed obsessively dictating new chapters of his Natural History to his slave Diocles. Fat, wheezing, imperious, and prone to nosebleeds, Pliny does not believe in spending his evenings in repose: No--to be awake is to be alive. There's no time to waste if he is to classify every element of the natural world in a single...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811230810ISBN-10:811230813UPC:9780811230810Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, HistoricalBook Topic:Denmark, AncientSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCHHFN67E1
Voetmann, Harald: - Harald Voetmann is a Danish author, born 1978. He has written novels, short stories, poetry and a monograph on the Roman poet Sulpicia. He studied Latin at the University of Copenhagen and is also a translator of classical Latin literature, notably Petronius and Juvenal. Awake is the first in his series of three historical novels about the urge to understand and conquer...
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