PERSIAN BOY (VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS) (PB)

In this book, Mary Renault vividly imagines the last years of Alexander the Great through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Originally sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, Bagoas finds freedom with Alexander the Great after the Macedon army conquers his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alexander as he weathers assassination plots, the demands of two foreign wives, a sometimes mutinous army. After Alexander's mysterious death, we are left wondering if this Persian boy understood the great warrior and his ambitions better than anyone.