Vita Brevis: Floria Aemilia's Letter to Aurel Augustine

Second-Hand (Hardcover)

Excellent condition

A box of Latin manuscripts comes to light in an Argentine flea market.

An apocryphal invention by some 17th or 18th century scholar, or a transcript of what it appears to be - a hitherto unheard-of letter to St Augustine to a woman he renounced for chastity?

VITA BREVIS is both an entrancing human document and a fascinating insight into the life and philosophy of St .Augustine.

Gaarder's interpretation of Floria's letter is as playful, inventive and questioning as Sophie's World.