| International Standard Book Number |
9781324118145 electronic book
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781923058811 paperback
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781324118138 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
132411813X hardcover
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| Personal Name |
Martel, Yann, author.
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| Title Statement |
Son of nobody : a novel / Yann Martel.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2026.
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| Physical Description |
334 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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| Summary, Etc. |
"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. 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 parallel 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.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Families Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Soldiers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Homesickness Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Mythology, Greek Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Trojan War Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Classicists Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Epic poetry, Greek Translating Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Mythological fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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