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Fresh from Egypt and the capture of El-Arish, Jaffa and Haifa, Napoleon Bonaparte lays siege to Acre in 1799. Its defence rests on the Ottoman governor Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar, backed by a British fleet and a royalist French officer. Rather than a chronicle of battles, the novel uses the siege as a frame for passion, rage and treachery. It shows the governor's court in all its cruelty and suspicion, lets al-Jazzar brood over his own life after he intercepts Napoleon's letters to a lover, and enters the corners of the city: the doubts of his Jewish adviser Haim Farhi, the plague, and a ship of prostitutes sent to entertain the French troops.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel, 1799

First published

2014 by Dar al-Ahlia

Author's age

40 when first published