Iain Pears

En los últimos días del Imperio Romano, durante la Peste Negra y en las más oscuras horas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, tres hombres buscan refugio de la locura que les rodea. Ambientada en Provenza en tres diferentes momentos críticos de la civilización occidental, El sueño de Escipión recorre el destino de Manlio Hipómanes, un aristócrata galo obsesionado con la conservación de la civilización romana; Olivier de Noyen, un poeta al servicio de un poderoso cardenal envuelto en una trama para restaurar el papado en Roma; y Julien Barneuve, un intelectual descontento que se une al gobierno de Vichy.… (más)

We are in England in the 1660s. Charles II has been restored to the throne following years of civil war and Cromwell's short-lived republic. Oxford is the intellectual seat of the country, a place of great scientific, religious, and political ferment. A fellow of New College is found dead in suspicious circumstances. A young woman is accused of his murder. We hear the story of the death from four witnesses: an Italian physician intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion; the son of an alleged Royalist traitor; a master cryptographer who has worked for both Cromwell and the king; and a renowned Oxford antiquarian. Each tells his own version of what happened. Only one reveals the extraordinary truth.… (más)