Son of Nobody : A Novel
Son of Nobody : A Novel
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Author(s): Martel, Yann
ISBN No.: 9781324118138
Pages: 288
Year: 202603
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 41.39
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were not the only ancient tales of the Trojan War. In Son of Nobody, Yann Martel composes a new legend: the Psoad, an epic in free verse that follows a goatherd's son, Psoas of Midea, who leaves his wife and family to fight at Troy. Psoas meets his doom and the poem of his life is lost--until a Canadian academic studying at Oxford, Harlow Donne, discovers its relics thirty centuries later. As Harlow assembles and comments on the fragments in footnotes, he retrieves memories of his wife and daughter and grapples with questions of ambition, family, and responsibility in both the ancient and modern worlds. Son of Nobody upends the regal perspective of traditional epics and shows that "the past is never done with, that always there are parallels and returns and repetitions, always the song continues." Readers of Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles and Emily Wilson's The Iliad will revel in this breathtaking feat of the imagination.


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