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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER

WINNER OF THE NESTA FELLOWSHIP AWARD 2003

''Wildly entertaining, deeply affecting'' Ali Smith, author of How to be both and Autumn

A coming-of-age tale to make the muses themselves roar with laughter and weep for pity -- sassy, razor-sharp and transformative.

Londinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. She''s a back-alley firecracker, a scruffy Nubian babe with tangled hair and bare feet - and she''s just been married off a fat old Roman. Life as a teenage bride is no joke but Zeeks is a born survivor. She knows this city like the back of her hand: its slave girls and drag queens, its shining villas and rotting slums. She knows how to get by. Until one day she catches the eye of the most powerful man on earth, the Roman Emperor, and her trouble really starts . . .

Silver-tongued and merry-eyed, this is a sto

The Emperors Babe From the Booker prizewinning

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 25/04/2002
      ISBN13: 9780140297812, 978-0140297812
      ISBN10: 0140297812
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER

      WINNER OF THE NESTA FELLOWSHIP AWARD 2003

      ''Wildly entertaining, deeply affecting'' Ali Smith, author of How to be both and Autumn

      A coming-of-age tale to make the muses themselves roar with laughter and weep for pity -- sassy, razor-sharp and transformative.

      Londinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. She''s a back-alley firecracker, a scruffy Nubian babe with tangled hair and bare feet - and she''s just been married off a fat old Roman. Life as a teenage bride is no joke but Zeeks is a born survivor. She knows this city like the back of her hand: its slave girls and drag queens, its shining villas and rotting slums. She knows how to get by. Until one day she catches the eye of the most powerful man on earth, the Roman Emperor, and her trouble really starts . . .

      Silver-tongued and merry-eyed, this is a sto

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