Cleopatra

Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faebound and The Final Strife."Enchanting, smart, and subversive-this is El-Arifi's masterpiece."-R.F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of KatabasisThis stunning edition includes designed endpapers and a custom case stamp.YOU KNOW MY NAME, BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME.Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall.Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods themselves.Your poets sing of my bloodlust, but I was always protecting my children.How wilfully they refuse to concede that a woman could be powerful, strategic, and divinely blessed to rule.Death will silence me no longer.This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived.