© Perseus
The romance of the physician Valentine and blind Julia provides the central thread of this engrossing novel which brings to life the world of the Roman Empire at a time when Christians were amongst those whose deaths provided public entertainment in the Flavian Amphitheatre and the Circus Maximus. It is a novel with remarkable resonances, its ideas startlingly relevant to our own times: globalisation vs. fundamentalism, reason vs. superstition, civil law vs. personal freedom, the perverse gratifications of sex and violence, the subversion of virtue by wealth – and the power of passionate love to overcome all obstacles.
Brandon Mount Eagle Publications 2005
Translated into: Bulgarian
Steve MacDonogh
Brandon/Mount Eagle Publications
Cooleen, Dingle
Co. Kerry
Ireland
Email: mesmac@eircom.net
Website: www.brandonbooks.com