Ransom
Author(s): David Malouf
With learning worn lightly and in his own lyrical language, David Malouf retells Homer's Iliad. Focusing on the unbreakable bonds between men - Priam and Hector, Patroclus and Achilles, Priam and the cart-driver hired to retrieve Hector's body. Pride, grief, brutality, love and neighbourliness are explored. And, this retelling has a few surprises. The minute you finish this novel you will want to return to the beginning and start all over again. First published 2009.
Product Information
David Malouf is the author of short story collections Dream Stuff and Every Move You Make, and of acclaimed novels including The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' and Miles Franklin Prizes) and Remembering Babylon (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the Impac Dublin Literary Award). He also writes poetry, drama and libretti for operas. Born and brought up in Brisbane, he lives in Sydney.
General Fields
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- : Random House Australia
- : Vintage (Australia)
- : 0.332
- : 01 March 2009
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : Modern fiction
- : 224
- : very good
- : 823.914
- : 1
- : hardback with dustjacket
- : David Malouf