{"product_id":"9781039001503","title":"Son of Nobody","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003ci\u003e • \u003c\/i\u003eA\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eEditors’ Choice\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003e• \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eFrom from the Booker Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eLife of Pi, \u003c\/i\u003ea brilliant retelling of the Trojan War from the point of view of two commoners: an ancient soldier and modern scholar—for fans of Homer’s \u003ci\u003eIliad \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Ingenious.\" ―\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Superb.\" ―\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rare and valuable. . . . Compelling.\" ―\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“The past is never done with: always the song continues”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it. Though it means leaving his daughter and fracturing marriage back home in Canada, this is the kind of career break he desperately needs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the depths of the Bodleian Library, Harlow discovers a lost account of the Trojan War, a glimpse into the founding of Western civilization itself. He names the epic poem \u003ci\u003eThe Psoad\u003c\/i\u003e, after its protagonist, a Greek commoner identified as Psoas of Midea, but known to all as son of nobody.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs sole translator and interpreter of \u003ci\u003eThe Psoad\u003c\/i\u003e, Harlow dedicates the poem and its footnotes to his daughter, Helen. Under his gaze, the text unlocks echoes of Ancient Greece into the present day, and a personal message to his beloved child appears. Despite the two-thousand-year gap between the two, a thread hasn’t frayed: the universal song of homesickness and regret, of ambition, love, and grief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this masterpiece of myth, history, and domesticity, \u003ci\u003eSon of Nobody \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how stories become facts, the price we pay to share them, and how we live—then, now, and always.","brand":"Martel, Yann","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":68188362506400,"sku":"9781039001503","price":18.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_dd5c1216-a376-4ed2-a87c-8b53f7ec80ef.jpg?v=1793555053","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9781039001503","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}