Olivier Guez: Mesopotamia
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You may not know her, but she once held the world in her hands. Following World War I, Gertrude Bell drew the borders of the Orient in the wild desert where it all began: the land between two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates. Adventurer, archaeologist, spy, fluent in Arabic and Persian, she was the first powerful woman of the British Empire, yet also a tragic heroine. Idealistic like her friend and soul brother Lawrence of Arabia. Imperialist and brave like the young Winston Churchill. A beloved yet misunderstood child of a wealthy Victorian family. An ardent lover. And a mystery to us: one of those women erased by history. Olivier Guez restores her glory and presents us with a flamboyant epic: from the discovery of vast oil fields to the harsh power games between the British, French, and Germans, from negotiations under Bedouin tents to the sands of Baghdad where our dreams fade. Gertrude Bell's novel sketches the vast tapestry of the first globalization when the greatest empire of all time claimed a mythical and cursed land, the land of Abraham, the flood, and Babel, the tomb of Alexander the Great: Mesopotamia.
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