The Persian Boy

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THE PERSIAN BOY traces the last years of Alexander's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with Alexander after the Macedon army conquered his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alexander as he weathers assassination plots, the demands of two foreign wives, a sometimes mutinous army, and his own ferocious temper. After Alexander's mysterious death, we are left wondering if this Persian boy understood the great warrior and his ambitions better than anyone.

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"It takes skill to depict, as Renault has done, this half-man, half-courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior". The Atlanic Monthly

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Mary Renault died in 1983..