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Knopf
June 2013
On Sale: June 4, 2013
265 pages
ISBN: 0307962555
EAN: 9780307962553
Kindle: B00ALBR2NG
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From the award-winning author of The Golden Mean, a captivating, wholly transporting new novel that follows Aristotleβs 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 fatherβs 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. Aristotleβs 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 herβa rebellious household, capricious gods and goddessesβshe will need every ounce of wit she possesses, and the courage to seek refuge where she least expects it.
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