"Powerful, inventive, passionate, and beautifully written. injects a newfound sense of suspense into a story with an ending that has already been determined." - Wall Street Journal "One of the best novelistic adaptations of Homer in recent memory, and it offers strikingly well-rounded and compassionate portrait of Achilles. Talk about updating the classics." - Time magazine "Wildly romantic surprisingly suspenseful.ringing those dark figures back to life, making them men again, and while she's at it, us her passionate companion piece to The Iliad as a subtle swipe at today's ongoing debate over gay marriage. "Fast, true and incredibly rewarding.A remarkable achievement." - USA Today Little do they know that the Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice.īuilt on the groundwork of the Iliad, Madeline Miller's page-turning, profoundly moving, and blisteringly paced retelling of the epic Trojan War marks the launch of a dazzling career. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. When word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, the men of Greece, bound by blood and oath, must lay siege to Troy in her name. Their bond deepens as they grow into young men and become skilled in the arts of war and medicine-much to the displeasure and the fury of Achilles' mother, Thetis, a cruel sea goddess with a hatred of mortals. Yet despite their differences, the boys become steadfast companions.
"The best of all the Greeks"-strong, beautiful, and the child of a goddess-Achilles is everything the shamed Patroclus is not. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles.
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An action-packed adventure, an epic love story, a marvelously conceived and executed page-turner, Miller's monumental debut novel has already earned resounding acclaim from some of contemporary fiction's brightest lights-and fans of Mary Renault, Bernard Cornwell, Steven Pressfield, and Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series will delight in this unforgettable journey back to ancient Greece in the Age of Heroes.
Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch HouseĪ thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War from the bestselling author of CirceĪ tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a dazzling literary feat that brilliantly reimagines Homer's enduring masterwork, The Iliad. About the Book A thrilling and unique retelling of the legend of Achilles: a tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart-a dazzling feat of the imagination that is sure to be one of the most unusual debuts of the season.Īt once a scholar's homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art.A book I could not put down.
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