Emilija Leta

Emilia Leta is the wife of Galerius, an ambitious Roman commander whose career climbs swiftly toward the summit of Diocletian's empire. When a politically useful marriage beckons, she suddenly becomes superfluous to power. History did not even record the name of this abandoned woman, and the author gives her one, imagining what the life of a wife left behind for the sake of interest and success might have been. It is a story of a love that outlived its end, and a parable about those whom power renders invisible, which avoids simply equating power with evil and powerlessness with good.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

316 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Love (assigned by AI)

First published

2006 by Plato

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9788644703259 (original)