Marios Polycarpou; André C.P.L.F. de Carvalho; Jeng-Shyang Pan; Michał Woźniak; Héctor Quintián; Emilio Corchado Springer International Publishing AG (2014) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Jeng-Shyang Pan; Marios M. Polycarpou; Michal Wozniak; André C.P.L.F. de Carvalho; Héctor Quintian Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG (2013) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Mario Luiz Zuolo; Daniel Kherlakian; José Eduardo de Mello; Maria Cristina Coelho de Carvalho; Mari Ranazzi Cabral Fagundes Quintessenz Verlags-GmbH (2017) Saatavuus: Hankintapalvelu Kovakantinen kirja
Grove Atlantic Sivumäärä: 304 sivua Asu: Pehmeäkantinen kirja Julkaisuvuosi: 2000, 04.12.2000 (lisätietoa) Kieli: Englanti
Winner of the Portuguese Writers' Association Grand Prize for Fiction and the Pegasus Prize for Literature, and a best-seller in Portugal, Mario de Carvalho's A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening is a vivid and affecting historical novel set at the twilight of the Roman Empire and the dawn of the Christian era. Lucius Valerius Quintius is prefect of the fictitious city of Tarcisis, charged to defend it against menaces from without -- Moors invading the Iberian peninsula -- and from within -- the decadent complacency of the Pax Romana. Lucius's devotion to civic duty undergoes its most crucial test when Iunia Cantaber, the beautiful, charismatic leader of the outlawed Christian sect, is brought before his court. A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening is a timeless story of an era beset by radical upheaval and a man struggling to reconcile his heart, his ethics, and his civic duty.