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I do not have the words...but I will try. This is a beautiful story and one that is beautifully told. Roger Kean has produced something that transends the genre of romantic-historical fiction and becomes a timeless tale of love and tragedy. Along side relationships like that of Achilles and Patroclus or Alexander and Hephaestion there is now Malco and Juba. There is a loyalty here that transcends the spirit of love and becomes something...holy.
The book could be seen as a coming-of-age story but ...more
The book could be seen as a coming-of-age story but ...more
Jan 16, 2013
Bill
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3.5*
This is primarily an historical fiction about the second Punic war and the Barca (Barcid) family (Barca meant lightening or thunderbolt in Phoenician/Punic). The protagonist is Marco Barca, son of Himilco and cousin to Hannibal. Marco is presented as Gay in the modern sense and falls in love with his best friend Trebon, also an aristocrat of Carthage. The story is presented through the development of their relationship as they travel with Hannibal from Carthago Nova (Cartagena), thru Gaul, o ...more
This is primarily an historical fiction about the second Punic war and the Barca (Barcid) family (Barca meant lightening or thunderbolt in Phoenician/Punic). The protagonist is Marco Barca, son of Himilco and cousin to Hannibal. Marco is presented as Gay in the modern sense and falls in love with his best friend Trebon, also an aristocrat of Carthage. The story is presented through the development of their relationship as they travel with Hannibal from Carthago Nova (Cartagena), thru Gaul, o ...more
Sep 06, 2012
Joseph-Daniel Peter Paul Abondius
marked it as to-read
Jan 20, 2013
Dana
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