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Egypt’s Sister
First published 2017
Chava, the Jewish daughter of a royal tutor, grows up beside Cleopatra and believes their friendship can survive the queen’s rise to power. A rupture between them instead strips Chava of family and privilege and carries her through enslavement into Rome, where personal survival becomes entangled with the wars deciding Egypt’s future.
Cleopatra’s alliances with Mark Antony and conflict with Octavian form the political horizon, but the novel measures empire through the life of a displaced woman. Chava must choose between loyalty to the friend she remembers, love within her new circumstances and obedience to God. Her loss of status reveals the moral distance between court splendour and freedom.
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