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The siege of Isfahan / Jean-Christophe Rufin ; translated from the French by Willard Wood.
LIBRA - Special PQ2678.U357 S2813 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rufin, Jean-Christophe, 1952-
- Standardized Title:
- Sauver Isfahan. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peter I, Emperor of Russia, 1672-1725--Fiction.
- Peter.
- Peter I, Emperor of Russia, 1672-1725.
- Physicians--Iran--Fiction.
- Physicians.
- Sieges--Fiction.
- Sieges.
- History.
- Iran.
- Afghanistan.
- Iṣfahān (Iran)--Fiction.
- Iṣfahān (Iran).
- Afghanistan--History--Fiction.
- Iran--History--16th-18th centuries--Fiction.
- Iran--Iṣfahān.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 373 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [2002]
- Summary:
- A luminous sequel to "The Abyssinian, " and a headlong adventure set in the treacherous splendor of the Eastern empires. This is the beginning of Poncet's circuitous return to Isfahan, where his wife and daughter are trapped by a besieging army of the Afghan king, Mahmud.
- ISBN:
- 0393323390
- 9780393323399
- OCLC:
- 50624233
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