· The action sweeps Ilario, a young hermaphrodite artist, from giving Caesarian birth to a daughter in Venice to befriending Pharaoh-Queen Ty-ameny in Alexandria-in-exile at Constantinople. A turn of fate sees a Chinese war junk taking Ilario first home to Iberia to negotiate with King Rodrigo and then to mighty Carthage, gloomy under the mysterious sunless Penitence but still capable of 4/5(2). A native of Iberia, Ilario is visiting Carthage en route to Rome, where he/she plans to serve as an apprentice to a master painter, when he/she is sexually violated and becomes the slave of Rekhmire', an amiable Egyptian and castrato by choice, who wants Ilario for his/her artistic abilities.4/5(15). · Ilario is different, so it's hard to know what to compare it to, but all of Mary Gentle's books are different and challenging and innovative, to each other as well as to other fiction. It starts pretty slowly, but it's appealing and honest and heartbreaking.4/5(15).
Read "Ilario The Lion's Eye" by Mary Gentle available from Rakuten Kobo. Abandoned and alone, the fosterling Ilario grows up as the King's Freak, surrounded by all the pomp, intrigue, and dange. The Lion's Eye by Gentle, Mary available in Trade Paperback on www.doorway.ru, also read synopsis and reviews. Abandoned and alone, the fosterling Ilario grows up as the King's Freak, surrounded by all the pomp. Mary Gentle's ASH [6 stars] is one of my favourite alternative history books, and this new book "Ilario" is set in the same off-shoot of reality. A strange sunless sky, the "Penitence" - an unexplained darkness - hovers over Carthage, there is no Pope in Rome and Golems (clay robots) are plodding around.
Ilario: The Lions' Eye takes place in an alternate world and draws from real people and places. The book begins with Ilario arriving in Carthage. Fresh off the boat, and freed from a childhood of slavery in a king’s court, Ilario is quickly targeted by a man who convinces Ilario to sleep with him. Ilario is born hermaphrodite, a true genetic chimera. Found abandoned on the steps of a chapel of the Green Christ, in one of the minor Iberian kingdoms, on a freezing snowy night, Ilario is fostered by Federico, an impoverished Iberian noble, who plans to gift Ilario to the king, hoping to gain favour at court. Read "Ilario: The Lion's Eye A Story of the First History, Book One" by Mary Gentle available from Rakuten Kobo. Abandoned and alone, the fosterling Ilario grows up as the King's Freak, surrounded by all the pomp, intrigue, and dange.
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