MARY RENAULT

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THE KING MUST DIE de Mary RENAULT. Great Britain 1964. Four Square

Quan el jove Bagoas va ser segrestat del seu poblat i venut com a esclau, no es devia imaginar que al cap de poc temps acabaria sent el servidor preferit d´un personatge singular: el també jove Alexandre, proclamat rei després de l´assassinat del seu pare.

“It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior.”-The Atlantic Monthly The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but found freed...

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