Initially, this world -famous bestseller was to film Roman Polanski, a master of large -scale film -relegated. And it is not surprising: after all, the death of Pompei is one of the most dramatic events of world history. And Robert Harris’s novel is one of the most striking, memorable and cinematic works that described this tragedy … exhaustingly hot August 79 from the Nativity of Christ. Brilliant Pompeii spread on the coast of the Gulf of Neapolitan. The city of Glory and Pride, the Pearl of the Roman Empire. The luxurious villas of the first rich, crowds of vacationers who flooded local resorts, blood on the sand of the gladiatorial arena and passion emanating from the barely covered seductive bodies of the eastern concubines … Here the great power appeared in all its glory. It seemed that in Pompey it would gain eternity … But what is the city before the terrifying power of the earth? Before the streams of fiery lava and hot ash? Before the destructive shudder of stone subsoil and deadly gas clouds? …
Author
Harris Robert
Translator
Stepashkina Oksana Miroslavovna
Publisher
Eksmo, 2014
Series
A world -class filmmaker
Genre
Modern foreign prose
16+
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