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| Salammbo | 
 enlarge | Author: Gustave Flaubert
Publisher: Editions Flammarion
Category: Book
Buy New: £9.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2758024
Media: Paperback
Pages: 466
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 2080711121
Dewey Decimal Number: 848'.7
EAN: 9782080711120
ASIN: 2080711121
Publication Date: July 11, 1984
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Carthage April 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Although this book is called Salammbo, she doesn't appear in it that much, and her story is just an incidental sideline to the main story. If you have read Flaubert before you will find this book somewhat different. If you like a bog standard historical novel you may find this tale a bit too exotic.
Salammbo is set in the second century BC. Carthage won't pay its mercenaries after the Punic Wars, and thus starts the Mercenary War. What this book shows is the horrors of war, and man's inhumanity to man. Prisoners of war are crucified or trampled underfoot by elephants amongst other indignities. Carthage is under siege at one stage and the inhabitants practice human sacrifice to appease the gods. The mercenaries that see this look on in shocked dismay, only for some of them to later carry out cannibalism.
This book is bloody and gory, and the story will keep you absorbed. It would make an excellent movie, but once again it won't be a book for everyones tastes.
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