{"product_id":"thusnelda-in-exile-by-konrad-aniol","title":"Thusnelda in Exile by Konrad Aniol","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThusnelda in Exile\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eby Konrad Aniol\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccounts of women's lives rarely survive from the ancient world. This novel is built on the premise that one did — a biography of the princess Thusnelda, almost completely intact, recorded by a scribe two millennia ago and copied faithfully down the centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKonrad Anton Aniol presents it as a recovered document, written in Latin and the common Greek of the day, apparently by a servant of one of the few Roman knights ever to gain the princess's confidence, with passages that may have been added by the knight himself. Shifts in style across the text hint at a succession of secretaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThusnelda was a Germanic noblewoman taken to Rome, and the book is concerned with what exile does to a person who cannot go home and will not be absorbed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorical fiction with the texture of a found manuscript, opening on Hosea: \"When Israel was a child I loved him, out of Egypt I called my son.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook (EPUB)\u003c\/strong\u003e · ISBN 9781622491803\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biblio Publishing","offers":[{"title":"eBook","offer_id":43680858865727,"sku":"9781622491803","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/3637\/8687\/files\/d678a49dc1c3802e2932961d7e55344a.jpg?v=1785984682","url":"https:\/\/bibliobookstore.com\/products\/thusnelda-in-exile-by-konrad-aniol","provider":"Biblio Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}