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Francine Prose is the author of twenty works of fiction Her novel A Changed Man won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and Blue Angel was a finalist for the National Book Award Her most recent works of nonfiction include the highly acclaimed Anne Frank The Book The Life The Afterlife and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer The recipient of numerous grants and honors including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright a Directors Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library Prose is a former president of PEN American Center and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Her most recent book is Lovers at the Chame Francine Prose is the author of twenty works of fiction Her novel A Changed Man won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and Blue Angel was a finalist for the National Book Award Her most recent works of nonfiction include the highly acclaimed Anne Frank The Book The Life The Afterlife and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer The recipient of numerous grants and honors including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright a Director s Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library Prose is a former president of PEN American Center and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Her most recent book is Lovers at the Chameleon Club Paris 1932 She lives in New York City site_link A feiticeira desesperadamente apaixonada por Marco Ant nio A sedutora que supostamente se escondeu entre tecidos e tape arias para impressionar C sar A tirana que assassinou a fam lia para assumir o trono que era seu por direito Cle patra uma figura rodeada por mitos Al m das lendas imortalizadas por Plutarco Shakespeare George Bernard Shaw por Hollywood e pela literatura n o existem registros escritos pela pr pria imperadora eg pcia Tudo o que existe para contar a sua hist ria s o as palavras dos outros sendo a maioria a palavra de homens O que significa para a representa o de sua hist ria tudo ser contado atrav s das cren as e valores de outras pessoas Pessoas em esmagadora maioria de homens que muitas vezes questionavam sua origem seus motivos e alian as a chamavam de bruxa e mentirosa Francine Prose mergulha nas fontes hist ricas do Egito da Gr cia antiga e do Imp rio Romano assim como nas representa es modernas na arte teatro e cinema em busca de desafiar as narrativas impostas pelo orientalismo e misoginia Criando uma nova interpreta o da hist ria de Cle patra atrav s da lente da nossa era contempor nea CLE PATRA