The Emperor's Babe
by Evaristo, BernardineEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-02-24
Publisher(s): Penguin Books
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Summary
Bernardine Evaristo’s tale of forbidden love in bustling third-century London is an intoxicating cocktail of poetry, history, and fiction. Feisty, precocious Zuleika, daughter of Sudanese immigrants-made-good and restless teenage bride of a rich Roman businessman, craves passion and excitement. When she begins an affair with the emperor, Septimius Severus, she knows her life will never be the same. Streetwise, seductive, and lyrical, with a lively, affecting heroine, The Emperor’s Babeis a strikingly imaginative historical novel-in-verse.
Author Biography
Bernardine Evaristo was born in London to a Nigerian father and an English mother. She trained as an actress and cofounded a theater company for which she wrote plays and acted. She has won numerous writing awards for prose and poetry, including the EMMA (Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards) Best Book Award for her novel Lara. She has held writing fellowships at the University of East Anglia and Barnard College.
Table of Contents
| Prologue | p. 3 |
| Londinium Tour Guide (Unofficial) | p. 9 |
| The Betrayal | p. 14 |
| The Betrothal | p. 22 |
| Osmosis | p. 24 |
| Till Death Do Us | p. 27 |
| Metamorphosis | p. 33 |
| Two Hot Chicks | p. 35 |
| Sisterfamilias (Relative Values) | p. 51 |
| Zuleika and Her Girls | p. 55 |
| Another World, Natale Solum (Native Soil) | p. 57 |
| Primum Deterge Eam (Wipe It First) | p. 63 |
| Capistrum Maritale (The Matrimonial Halter) | p. 67 |
| Modus Vivendi (A Way of Living) | p. 69 |
| Doesn't Time Fly When You're Having Fun | p. 72 |
| Ab Asino Ianam (Wool from an Ass) | p. 76 |
| Important Matters of State | p. 91 |
| A Quiet Bedtime Voice | p. 107 |
| Cumulonimbus (or, It's That Time of the Month Again) | p. 109 |
| Zuleika Goes to the Theatre | p. 113 |
| Obsession | p. 115 |
| Dum Vivimus, Vivamus (While We Live, Let Us Live) or, Babe Talk | p. 117 |
| Missing Pieces: A Perfect Match | p. 124 |
| Venus Winks at Lovers' Games | p. 128 |
| My Legionarius | p. 132 |
| Post-coital Consciousness | p. 135 |
| Post-coital Colloquium | p. 139 |
| The Language of Love (I) | p. 151 |
| The Language of Love (II) | p. 159 |
| Amari Aliquid (Some Touch of Bitterness) | p. 160 |
| Zuleika's Trip to the Amphitheatre | p. 163 |
| Nulli Secundus (Second to None) | p. 170 |
| Abyssus Abyssum (One Depravity Leads to Another) | p. 181 |
| All the Evil of the World Let Loose | p. 184 |
| Thus One May Go to the Stars | p. 187 |
| Verbosa Orgia | p. 194 |
| Dum Spiro, Spero (Where There's Life, There's Hope) | p. 202 |
| Post-mortem | p. 210 |
| Every Lover is a Soldier (Militat Omnis Amans) | p. 217 |
| When You Least Expect | p. 233 |
| Vale, Farewell, My Libyan | p. 234 |
| Albatross | p. 235 |
| The Language of Love (III) | p. 236 |
| Animula Vagula (Little Soul Flitting Away) | p. 237 |
| Domum Dulcie Domum (Home Sweet Home) | p. 238 |
| Exit Stratagem | p. 240 |
| The Price You Pay, My Beautiful Wife | p. 242 |
| Vade in Pace (Go in Peace) | p. 243 |
| Epilogue | p. 253 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 255 |
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