Synopses & Reviews
Conspiracy abounds in this historical novel about the fortunes of a family in third-century Rome, a city that had been open and secure for three centuries but which was fortified with an enormous wall by the Emperor Aurelian in 270-275. Dominating a seething listless and dangerous polyglot city, the wall is inescapable and darkly ambiguous, symptomatic of a great social order perhaps grappling with its death throes.
Synopsis
The Wall concerns the fortunes of a Roman family in the third century. Rome is brilliantly revealed by Peter Vansittart as strange, yet familiar, with issues like unemployment, inflation, pollution, and political corruption occupying the lives of its characters.