Cleopatra's shadows : a novel / Emily Holleman.
By: Holleman, Emily [author.].
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TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015Edition: First edition.Description: 342 pages : genealogical table ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780316382984 (hbk.); 0316382981 (hbk.).Subject(s): Arsinoe IV, Queen of Egypt, -41 B.C. -- Fiction | Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C. -- Fiction | Arsinoe IV, Queen of Egypt, -41 B.C | Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C | 332 B.C. - 640 A.D | Egypt -- History -- Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D. -- Fiction | Egypt -- History -- 30 B.C.-640 A.D. -- Fiction | EgyptGenre/Form: Biographical fiction. | Fiction. | Historical fiction. | History. | Biographical fiction. | Historical fiction.DDC classification: 813/.6 Summary: Reimagines the beginnings of Cleopatra's epic saga through the eyes of her younger sister. Reading-group guide available.Summary: Abandoned by her beloved sister Cleopatra and an indifferent father, young Arsinoe must fight for her survival in the bloodthirsty royal court when her half-sister Berenice seizes Egypt's throne. To survive, she escapes the palace for the war-torn streets of Alexandria. When their deposed father Ptolemy marches on the city with a Roman army, both daughters must decide where their allegiances truly lie, and Arsinoe grapples with the truth: that the only way to survive her dynasty is to rule it.
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Reimagines the beginnings of Cleopatra's epic saga through the eyes of her younger sister. Reading-group guide available.
Abandoned by her beloved sister Cleopatra and an indifferent father, young Arsinoe must fight for her survival in the bloodthirsty royal court when her half-sister Berenice seizes Egypt's throne. To survive, she escapes the palace for the war-torn streets of Alexandria. When their deposed father Ptolemy marches on the city with a Roman army, both daughters must decide where their allegiances truly lie, and Arsinoe grapples with the truth: that the only way to survive her dynasty is to rule it.