Ziska

About this book

A beautiful stranger appears in Cairo, and the painter Armand Gervase becomes consumed by her. Ziska's charm hides a grievance reaching back to ancient Egypt, where love, betrayal and revenge have been waiting centuries for another encounter.

Marie Corelli sets her supernatural romance amid fashionable travellers, archaeological fascination and the uneasy glamour of Egyptian antiquity. Reincarnation gives the attraction between Ziska and Gervase its darker meaning, as fragments of an earlier life gradually return. The book's extravagant atmosphere suits its central idea: a passion so destructive that even death has failed to exhaust it.