Book description
A powerful novel about destiny, home and surviving in a world in flux
Britain, AD 72.
Quintus, long exiled from his people, has travelled great odysseys in the retinue of a powerful Roman. Though a citizen of nowhere, is a man of reason, fluent in many languages. Olwen,…
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1 author picked Run to the Western Shore as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved Tim Pears’ novel because, like Groff’s book, it’s as much the story of a lost landscape as it is about the lives of two young lovers trying to escape the masters that oppress them. Set during the Roman occupation of Britain, those two central characters are on the run - Quintus, a young man enslaved by the Romans, and Olwen, daughter of a Celtic chief who has been given as a peace offering to the Roman general who has just defeated her tribe.
But if Quintus and Olwen’s love affair and escape are central to the novel, a…
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