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Mesopotamia
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You don't know her, yet she held the world in her hands. In the aftermath of the First World War, Gertrude Bell drew the borders of the Orient, in this wild desert where it all began: the country between two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates. Adventurer, archaeologist, spy, speaking Arabic and Persian, she was the first powerful woman of the British Empire, but also a tragic heroine. Idealist like her friend and soul brother Lawrence of Arabia. Imperialist and courageous like the young Winston Churchill. Loved and misunderstood child of a rich Victorian family. Desperate lover. And an enigma for us: that of the women that History has erased. Olivier Guez restores her glory and offers us a flamboyant epic: from the discovery of gigantic oil deposits to the cruel power games between the British, French and Germans, from negotiations under Bedouin tents to the sands of Baghdad where our dreams are lost. Gertrude Bell's novel paints a vast picture of the first globalization, when the greatest empire of all time appropriated a mythical and cursed land, the land of Abraham, of the flood and of Babel, the tomb of Alexander the Great: Mesopotamia.
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