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In the second century AD, a Greek nobleman is travelling and living abroad in Germany while carrying on an affair with a military man's wife. When discovered, he takes an emergency business trip to save his life and packs amongst his belongings certain items that lead the people he encounters to think him a Norse God, a fortuitous point of view which he does little to dispel. Forced to keep up the pretence of being a god while staying one step ahead of his lover's jealous husband, Photinus show more must juggle the severity of his situation with the enjoyment of being a God. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Votan
- Original publication date
- 1966
- People/Characters
- Photinus
- Important places
- Ancient Greece; Germany
- First words
- Well, if you really want to know how it was I came to be chained to an oak tree, halfway up in the middle of nowhere, with wolves trying to eat me out of it, i'll tell you.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ4 .J2843 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 2
