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Light from the Ancients: A Novel
Light from the Ancients: A Novel
Light from the Ancients: A Novel
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Weaving the historical into the personal, LIGHT FROM THE ANCIENTS is a meditation on U.S. foreign policy, parenthood, and improbable love.

It is late summer 2001. Professor Rifaat al-Muheiddin of the London School of Economics is a wanted man in the Middle East. Laila, his teenage sister, blazes up the club scene in London. Nico, the daughter of a former U.S. ambassador, keeps a ghost in her mind in New York’s Upper West Side: she believes that the injustice her late father had suffered in the hands of the U.S. government had led to his early demise.

A clear, beautiful morning in the Big Apple brings death and destruction upon the World Trade Center. The event leads Nico to London, where she meets the professor and Laila.

But the city of Big Ben is anything but serene a year after September 11, and as the drums of war beat yet again...

The three friends navigate the British capital convulsing in fashionable anti-Americanism, the rise of Islamists, and the shadow of what they all fear—the clash of civilizations—until destiny brings about the shocking death of one of them.

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Release dateNov 22, 2018
ISBN9780463342152
Light from the Ancients: A Novel
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Joanna Llorente

Seattle-based novelist Joanna Llorente writes about the intersection between politics, history, literature, and the individual’s point of view. She draws from her deep respect for the Classics and her travels. Her current project, a trilogy, is about the Philippines' People Power Revolution and the dictatorship it toppled.

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