2023-11-19 15:53:00
Love, sex and a criminal case: James Hynes resurrects late antiquity in his historical novel “I, Sparrow” with great pleasure in fables. Extremely exciting and informative.
In Spain’s Carthago Nova (today’s Cartagena in the southeastern region of Murcia, an important silver mining site for the Romans who conquered the city in 209 BC), things were not exactly tranquil in the fourth century AD. We are in the late Roman Empire, almost a hundred years later it will have collapsed, the end of antiquity has begun.
A boy, nameless and of unknown origins, witnesses an attempted rape in the brothel where he grows up. The cook Focaria, who is busy gutting fish, is seriously harassed by one of the brothel customers who has wandered into the kitchen.
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