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Horses of Heaven
by Gillian Bradshaw
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0385414668
- ISBN 13
- 9780385414661
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
This book is a first edition, in excellent condition. No wear to covers, minor pencil marking first inner page. No other markings inner pages, spine intact, no creases. "British novelist Bradshaw (Imperial Purple) has created a richly detailed, absorbing historical novel of the ancient world, with strong, well-developed characters and all the right plot elements: love, war, courtly life and the magic of the gods. In 140 B.C., narrator Tomryis, age 18, is chosen by Saka King Mauakes of Ferghana (now Afghanistan), to attend his new wife, Heliokleia, a Greek from the kingdom of Bactra. The marriage is a political alliance, and Mauakes makes it clear that beautiful, intelligent Heliokleia is to have only limited powers. The aloof queen decides to seek her soul's release by being the perfect ruler. Mauakes's grown son Itaz, devoted to his father, is sensitive to both the king's isolation behind the mask of power and Heliokleia's emotional suffering. Eventually Mauakes falls in love with his wife, but he can't demand her affection, which has settled on Itaz. Aided by their sun god patron, Heliokleia and Itaz must confront the paranoid, embittered Mauakes and endure a horrible confrontation with a supernatural creature. Well-researched, interesting details on the cultural and religious customs of the period provide background for the noble characters, who fulfill the promise, good or evil, of their true natures. --Publisher's Weekly" Good Reads "Born in Arlington, Virgina, Gillian Bradshaw grew up in Washington, Santiago, Chile and Michigan. She is a Classics graduate from Newnham College, Cambridge, and published her first novel, Hawk of May, just before her final term. A highly acclaimed historical novelist, Gillian Bradshaw has won the Hopwood Award for Fiction, among other prizes. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and their four children." Good Reads
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1043-2024
- Title
- Horses of Heaven
- Author
- Gillian Bradshaw
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0385414668
- ISBN 13
- 9780385414661
- Publisher
- Nan A. Talese
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 448
- Size
- 18 cm x 11 cm
- Keywords
- Fiction, Historical
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