The Emperor's Babe
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  • Published: 25 April 2002
  • ISBN: 9780141904627
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

The Emperor's Babe

From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

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15 Sep 2020
Paperback
16 Apr 2020
EBook
25 Apr 2002
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16 Apr 2020
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The smart, sassy coming-of-age story from the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other - now a Penguin Essential

'Dazzling', 'brilliant', 'streetwise', 'sassy', 'audacious': THE EMPEROR'S BABE has been hailed as one of the most original novels of 2001. Meet Zuleika: sassy girl about town, hellraiser, bored ex-child-bride in Londinium, AD 211. In the place (and time) to be ... Through the bustling, hustling city, we follow Zuleika, feisty and precocious daughter of Sudanese immigrants. Married off to a rich, fat, absent Roman, she is stranded in luxurious neglect, until, one day the Emperor himself, comes to town, bringing with him not just love - but danger ... Funky and funny, sexy and moving, this novel in verse is a triumph of imaginative writing - and of sheer lyrical and emotional vitality.
  • Published: 25 April 2002
  • ISBN: 9780141904627
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
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About the author

Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo is the author of Lara, winner of the Emma Best Book Award in 1999, The Emperor's Babe and Soul Tourists. She is a former Poet in Residence at the Museum of London, and her work has been widely anthologized. She won a prestigious Arts Council Writers Award in 2000.

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Girl, Woman, Other
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Blonde Roots
Mr Loverman
Hello Mum
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