419 pages
English language
Published April 9, 1988 by Vintage Books.
The Persian boy
by Mary Renault
5 stars
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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.
Subjects
- Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. -- Fiction.
- Kings and rulers -- Fiction.
- Generals -- Fiction.
- Eunuchs -- Fiction.
- Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. -- Fiction.