Een wolf bij zijn oren pakken
by Sana Valiulina
Description
When the elderly Emperor Tiberius – who now governs the Roman Empire by letter after withdrawing to the island of Capri – peers at the signal station from his standpoint on the cliff, he is consumed by fear. Will his plan to eliminate the power-hungry Sejanus succeed, or will he himself be killed if he fails to flee to Syria in time?
Sejanus has ruled in Rome for many years and is confident of the support of the Praetorian Guard. How did it come to this? How could the emperor who trusted no one put his destiny in the hands of this over-promoted provincial knight? Who is this Sejanus and how are these events related to the mysterious banquet that took place fifty years ago?
Grabbing a Wolf by the Ears is an unsettling saga about the most powerful families of imperial Rome, told from the perspective of the ‘saddest of men’, Emperor Tiberius, and about the extent to which people can shape their life and destiny.
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Reviews
“In [Grabbing a Wolf by the Ears], one recognises the intellectual wit of Tacitus, Pliny’s bombastic style and the poetic elegance of Ovid and Virgil.”
– De Groene Amsterdammer
“Especially in the second part, in the underworld, it sometimes feels as if you are reading Virgil’s Aeneid”
– NRC Handelsblad ★★★★
Author Biography
Sana Valiulina was born in Tallinn in 1964 and studied Norwegian language and literature in Moscow. She has lived in Amsterdam since 1989. Previously she wrote The Cross (2000), From Nowhere with Love (2002), Didar and Faruk (2006, nominated for the Libris Literature Prize, the Dutch Equivalent of the Booker Prize), A Hundred Years of Conviviality (2010), the acclaimed Brezhnev’s Children (2014), and Wintry Showers (2016, winner of the Jan Hanlo Essay Prize).
Uitgeverij Prometheus
Prometheus Publishers is a Dutch publisher that publishes a wide variety of quality fiction and non-fiction titles. Prometheus’s catalogue balances established talents with new voices that we introduce into the literary market. Amongst our fiction authors are renowned Dutch-language authors such as Connie Palmen, Griet Op de Beeck, Tom Lanoye, Tim Krabbé, and Esther Verhoef. Prometheus also publishes the Dutch translations of great international voices like Umberto Eco, Sandro Veronesi, Margaret Atwood, and Zadie Smith. Our non-fiction catalogue is filled with experts from across the scientific spectrum. Ranging from history to psychology and from physics to literary studies, Prometheus offers exciting new insights into a wide range of disciplines. Prometheus also publishes a philosophical series with musings on subjects that are relevant to our society today.
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- Publisher Uitgeverij Prometheus
- Publication Date May 2020
- Orginal LanguageDutch
- ISBN/Identifier 9789044639483
- Publication Country or regionNetherlands
- Pages296
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2020
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