Author(s): Bernardine Evaristo

Fiction

Slum tenements and sumptuous villas, drag queens and drama queens, sex as a currency and marriage as a career move: it?s Londinium, AD 211. Zuleika, daughter of Sudanese immigrants, is married off at 11 to a rich Roman three times her age who?s always away on business. She?s bored. Then she meets Emperor Septimius Severus.... Fusing poetry and fiction, history and myth, this new novel has drawn rave reviews. It?s funky and funny while exploring race, gender and class in a supposedly advanced society.