A Coin in Nine Hands

Name: A Coin in Nine Hands
Author: Marguerite Yourcenar

by Marguerite Yourcenar

Novel set in Fascist Italy where multiple lives converge around a coin

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Marguerite Yourcenar

French-Belgian author and the first woman elected to the Academie Francaise. Her historical novels, particularly Memoirs of Hadrian, reconstruct ancient consciousness with extraordinary imaginative empathy and scholarly rigor.

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Memoirs of HadrianNovel in letters narrating the reflections of aging Roman Emperor Hadrian
The AbyssNovel of Renaissance alchemists' quest for hidden knowledge and spiritual truth
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Oriental TalesCollection of stories and legends from Near Eastern and Asian cultures