Feast of Sorrow: A Novel of Ancient Rome Sam Anderson From a literary original (The

From a literary original (The Wall Street Journal) comes a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence

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Feast of Sorrow: A Novel of Ancient Rome Sam Anderson From a literary original (TheLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A Massachusetts Book Award "Must Read" Set amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs downstairs politics of a Roman family, this "addictively readable first novel" (Kirkus Reviews) features the man who inspired the world's oldest cookbook and the ambition that led to his destruction. In the twenty sixth year of Augustus Caesar's reign, Marcus Gavius Apicius has a singular ambition: to serve as