Winner · Women's Prize for Fiction 2025
The Persians
by Sanam Mahloudji
novel by Sanam Mahloudji
Historical novel set in the time of Alexander the Great.
This novel tells the story of the climactic last seven years of Alexander the Great's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas, a eunoch who was sold to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with the great general, sustaining Alexander through mutiny, assassination attempts and two wives.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- fiction
- Pages
- 424
- ISBN
- 9782260003755
- Subjects
- Eunuchs, Fiction, Generals, History, Kings and rulers, Biographical fiction, Historischer Roman, Macedonian Expansion (Greece : 359-323 B.C.) fast (OCoLC)fst01353599
