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Creation

Creation

Author(s): Gore Vidal

Location(s): China, Greece, India

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 5th Century BC

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Vidal’s historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles and Confucius are among the book’s characters.

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‘Highly absorbing, rich in history, irony and erudition.’ GUARDIAN ‘Splendid, serene, magisterial.’ SUNDAY TIMES Gore Vidal’s painstaking research grants him absolute mastery over his subject matter, and his skill as a writer make this...

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