An enchanting, audacious retelling of the Cleopatra story from a Mexican novelist who is âa luminous writerâ and âa masterful spinner of the fantasticâ (The Miami Herald).  In Cleopatra Dismounts, Carmen Boullosa has written a remarkable imaginary life of one of historyâs most legendary women. Dying in Marc Antonyâs arms, Cleopatra bewails the end of her political career throughout ancient Egypt, Greece, and the Mediterranean. But is this weak woman the true Cleopatra?  Through the intervention of Cleopatraâs scribe and informer Diomedes, Boullosa creates two deliriously wild other lives for the young monarchâa girl escaping the intrigues of royal society to disguise herself and take up residence with a band of pirates; and the young queen who is carried across the sea on the back of a magical bull, to live among the Amazons.  Magical, multifaceted, and rippling with luminous imagination, Cleopatra Dismounts confirms Carmen Boullosa as an important international voice.  âWildly entertaining.â âThe Washington Post  âA highly appealing and poetic interpretation of the Egyptian queenâs doomed fate.â âSan Francisco Chronicle  âThe Mexican fabulist Carmen Boullosa reinvents Cleopatra as a character for modern feminism to conjure with.â âThe Boston Globe
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