The Emperor's Babe: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

by Bernardine Evaristo

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

'Wildly entertaining, deeply affecting' Ali Smith


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...

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  • ISBN10 0241989841
  • ISBN13 9780241989845
  • Publish Date 23 July 2020 (first published 7 June 2001)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Penguin Books Ltd