What’s the story of Eterlimus? If you’re familiar with the opera or story of the “Rape of Lucretia,” that’s the setting. So his choice of a story set in long-ago Rome is kind of interesting. Author Aziz HamzaĪziz is from Saudi Arabia, and writes in both English and Arabic. Case in point: Aziz Hamza’s tale of Rome before the Republic, Eterlimus. Lynn on That New Book Smell- Part 14 or SoĪs a Canadian, living in America, writing for a global audience about something that happened in Algeria (among other places) I’m well aware that the great stories of history don’t belong to any one group.
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