An Imaginary Life, David Malouf furniture A temple prostitute

A temple prostitute

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and to ignore the limitations that we and those around us can place on ourselves

An Imaginary Life, David Malouf furniture A temple prostituteIn the first century A. D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverent poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, Malouf has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving novel. Marooned on the edge of the known world, exiled from his native tongue, Ovid depends on the kindness of barbarians who impale their dead and converse with the spirit world. Then he becomes the guardian