A Flame in Byzantium

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

ISBN 10: 0812528042 / ISBN 13: 9780812528046

Published by Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1988

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1st pr. SIGNED by AUTHOR on the title page. Book is square, solid, and unread. Once in receipt of this beauty, you'll feel as though you've journeyed over the hills and far away, beyond the field we know -- you'll be THAT enchanted! In protective archival bag! NOTE: Light evidence of handling to the tops of the pages, very minor. Seller Inventory # 027394

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Flame in Byzantium

Publisher: Tom Doherty Assoc Llc

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis:

Olivia Clems, a vampire is caught up in the complex political plots of sixth century Byzantium

From Publishers Weekly:

Yarbro's romantic, colorful cycle of historical horror novels (Hotel Transylvania, Blood Games) focuses this time on Olivia, the noble Roman lady who became a lover of the vampire Count Sanct' Germain in the time of Nero. Hundreds of years later, in the sixth century, Olivia is forced to flee Rome as war flares. In the more repressive and vigilantly Christian city of Constantinople she is suspect as a foreigner and an unmarried woman of wealth. When her patron, General Belisarius, falls out of favor with Emperor Justinian, she has no protection from the zealous Court Censor. Although the fact that Olivia is a vampire makes little difference until the end, the book has a real, cumulative power as a portrait of an intelligent, cosmopolitan woman caught in a paranoid web of politics and religious persecution. Particularly striking are its connections between the personal and the historical, the most moving of which is the reaction to Justinian's ordering the burning of the Library of Alexandria, with its thousands of irreplacable ancient texts.
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