The Ruby in Her Navel

Barry Unsworth

earliest edition we have, 2006 Hamish Hamilton, 2006 327 pages

Set in the Middle Ages during the brief yet glittering rule of the Norman kings, *The Ruby in Her Navel* is a tale in which the conflicts of the past portend the present. The novel opens in Palermo, in which Latin and Greek, Arab and Jew live together in precarious harmony. Thurstan Beauchamp, the Christian son of a Norman knight, works for Yusuf, a Muslim Arab, in the palace’s central finance office, a job which inc...

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The Ruby in Her Navel paperback · 2007 · W. W. Norton · 416 pages · 9780393330823
The Ruby in Her Navel paperback · 2006 · Hamish Hamilton · 320 pages · 9780241142219
The ruby in her navel edition · 2006 · Hamish Hamilton · 327 pages
The Ruby in Her Navel edition · 2006 · Nan A. Talese · 416 pages

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