A God Strolling in The Cool of The Evening

by Mario De Carvalho (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.30

  The next Pegasus Prize Winner, a novel of political rivalries, miltary combat and social unrest, set in the twilight years of the Roman Empire.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.44

  A novel of politic rivalries, military combat and social unrest, set in the twilight years of the Roman Empire. In the 3rd century AD, Lucerius Valerius Quincius, perfect of Tarcisis, an imaginary Roman City, begins his memoirs. His city is threatened from without and within. North African Moors are entering the Iberian Peninsular, and the prosperous, complacent Roman Towns are obvious prey. Within the city walls, members of a new religious sect known as Christians are being persecuted. Quincius, cynical but not defeatist, observes the slow decline but continues to fight for justice, wisdom and the principles underlying the Great civilization now nearing in it's end.

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $17.44

  Winner of the Portuguese Writers' Association Grand Prize for Fiction and the Pegasus Prize for Literature, and a best-seller in Portugal, Mario de Carvalho's A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening is a vivid and affecting historical novel set at the twilight of the Roman Empire and the dawn of the Christian era. Lucius Valerius Quintius is prefect of the fictitious city of Tarcisis, charged to defend it against menaces from without -- Moors invading the Iberian peninsula -- and from within -- the decadent complacency of the Pax Romana. Lucius's devotion to civic duty undergoes its most crucial test when Iunia Cantaber, the beautiful, charismatic leader of the outlawed Christian sect, is brought before his court. A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening is a timeless story of an era beset by radical upheaval and a man struggling to reconcile his heart, his ethics, and his civic duty.