Costanza Casati Knihy

Královny se dělí na ty nenáviděné a ty zapomenuté. A ty nejsi žena, která hodlá zmizet v propadlišti času. Narodila ses králi, provdali tě za tyrana. Bezmocně přihlížíš, jak pro pouhý závan větru, pro přízeň bohů obětuje vaši nejstarší dceru. Není to zdaleka poprvé, kdy ti vzal to,co je ti nejdražší. Pak po mnoho let sleduješ, jak válčí na vzdáleném pobřeží, a při životě tě drží jen myšlenka na pomstu. Tenhle život sis nezasloužila. Nenecháš se zlomit. A pomalu plánuješ. Když se vrátí, musíš se rozhodnout. Usmíření znamená potupu, odplata jistou smrt. Vyčkáváš a doufáš, že teď bohové pomohou tobě. Už dávno jsi totiž pochopila, co ostatním uniká: Pokud ti není dopřána moc, musíš si ji vzít sama

'When vengeance calls and the gods stop watching, what do we do to those who harm the people we love?' Wife. Mother. Fighter. Conspirator. Queen. CLYTEMNESTRA. This is the story of a daughter betrayed by her father. Who watches her sister be destroyed by violence and rape. Whose child is sacrificed to ensure her family's power. Who fights as fiercely as any warrior. Who falls in love with her husband's enemy. Who is hungry for otherworldly retribution against both men and gods... This is Clytemnestra, the most notorious heroine of the Ancient World. Know her name. Condemned by Homer and the Greek poets as a sexually faithless, deceitful, murderous woman, Clytemnestra's voice is obscured by the spiteful judgement of history. A judgement that refuses to see her strength and her cunning, her grief and her rage. Costanza Cosati's dazzling debut isn't just a retelling of the consequences of war on women - it is about how women fought their own wars. Because Clytemnestra understood something that the others didn't- If power isn't given to you, you have to take it for yourself.

Ancient Assyria, 9th century BC. An orphan is raised on the outskirts of a brutal empire. Heir to a tragic prophecy, Semiramis dreams of wielding power and escaping her destiny. Far away, a reluctant prince walks the corridors of his gilded palace in a city built by gods. Ninus would rather spend his days in books and poetry than conquering the world of men. But when he meets Onnes, a broken, beautiful warrior, something awakens in them both. That is until Semiramis arrives. A savage love soon erupts between them all. And before long, all three will be forced to learn the lesson of the gods - in Babylonia, you must bend the world to your will. What doesn't bend, you break.