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Knopf
June 2013
On Sale: June 4, 2013
265 pages
ISBN: 0307962555
EAN: 9780307962553
Kindle: B00ALBR2NG
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Fiction Family Life
From the award-winning author of The Golden Mean, a
captivating, wholly transporting new novel that follows
Aristotle’s strong-willed daughter as she shapes her own
destiny: an unexpected love story, a tender portrait of a
girl and her father, and an astonishing journey through the
underbelly of a supposedly enlightened society.
Aristotle has never been able to resist a keen mind, and
Pythias is certainly her father’s daughter: besting his
brightest students, refusing to content herself with a life
circumscribed by the kitchen, the loom, and, eventually, a
husband. Into her teenage years, she is protected by the
reputation of her adored father, but with the death of
Alexander the Great, her fortunes suddenly change.
Aristotle’s family is forced to flee Athens for a small
town, where the great philosopher soon dies, and orphaned
Pythias quickly discovers that the world is not a place of
logic after all, but one of superstition. As threats close
in on her—a rebellious household, capricious gods and
goddesses—she will need every ounce of wit she possesses,
and the courage to seek refuge where she least expects it.
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