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Son of nobody : = a novel /

Martel, Yann.

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Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Son of nobody :/ Yann Martel.
Reminder of title:	a novel /
Author:	Martel, Yann.
Published:	New York, NY :W. W. Norton & Company, : c2026.,
Description:	334 p. :ill., maps, port. ;24 cm.
Subject:	Trojan War - Fiction. -
ISBN:	9781324118138 :

Son of nobody : = a novel /
Martel, Yann.

Son of nobody :a novel /Yann Martel. - 1st ed. - New York, NY :W. W. Norton & Company,c2026. - 334 p. :ill., maps, port. ;24 cm.

"The most famous stories of the Trojan War and its aftermath are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. But these were not the only tales of the war sung to ancient audiences by bards-there were others, now vanished but for echoes and fragments, collected in what has come to be known as the Epic Cycle. In SON OF NOBODY, one such tale is the Psoad: an epic that follows the son of a goatherd, Psoas of Midea, who leaves his wife and family to fight on the beaches of Troy. Psoas meets his doom, and the epic poem of his life is lost to time-until another man on a foreign shore, a Canadian academic studying at Oxford, discovers its relics thirty centuries later. A truly daring feat of imagination, SON OF NOBODY is a novel composed in two voices: the first, a series of fragments from antiquity that tell the story of Troy from a lost, alt-Homeric tradition; the second, the voice of a modern-day scholar, Harlow Donne, who assembles and comments on these fragments while navigating a conflict of his own. Obsessed with his discovery, Donne still can't seem to let go of his family's past-he weaves together the tale of uncovering ancient papyri, faded codices, and broken cuneiform tablets with memories of his daughter as a child and his wife before their separation. Donne translates and writes in the heartfelt modes of Aphrodite, goddess of love, and Ares, god of war, as the paralell stories offer a poignant glimpse into both the follies of failed relationships and of battle. SON OF NOBODY upends the regal perspective of traditional epics, and by grappling with questions of ambition, family, and responsibility in both the ancient and the modern worlds, it shows "that the past is never done with, that always there are parallels and returns and repetitions, always the song continues.""-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN: 9781324118138 :US29.99

LCCN: 2025040309Subjects--Topical Terms:

552407
Trojan War
--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PR9199.3.M3855 / S66 2026

Son of nobody : = a novel /
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