Bibliograph

The council of Egypt

Type

Label

The council of Egypt

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The council of Egypt

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Summary

The Benedictine whisked a brush of multicolored feathers over the top of the book, puffed out his plump cheeks like the god of winds in an old nautical map, blew black dust from the leather cover, and, with a shiver of what in the circumstances seemed delicate trepidation, laid the volume open on the table. Palermo, 1783: The barons pursue feuds and petty plotting. Their wives indulge in forbidden French novels. And the porcine abbot Vella, eager to curry favor with Naples, 'invents' an ancient Arabic chronicle, The Council of Egypt, which rewrites Sicilian history

Target audience

adult

Classification