Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction
'Page-turning...Nothing strikes a false note in her intricately created world.'- TheGuardian
Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus,an awkward young prince,has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles.
Despite their differences,Achilles befriends the shamed prince,and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine,their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis,a cruel sea goddess.
But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped,Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny.
Torn between love and fear for his friend,Patroclus goes with him,little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcISBN: 9781408821985Number of pages: 368Weight: 260 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Extraordinary...As great a retelling of Homer's epic Iliad as you will find.'- The Daily Mail
'A captivating retelling...It's a hard book to put down.'- Donna Tartt, The Times
'A masterful re-telling of The Iliad,but looking at the hidden stories and the shadows beneath'- Kate Mosse,The Sunday Express
'A more than worthy winner - original,passionate,inventive and uplifting.'- Joanna Trollope,chair of the judges for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012
'Only the finest of historical novelists are able to adequately convey the sheer strangeness and otherness of the past,particularly the ancient past...Remarkably fresh.'- The Times
'Miller's prose is more poetic than almost any translation of Homer...Deeply affecting.'- The Observer
'Not least of Miller's achievements is to reanimate this vision of the divine in prose that is simultaneously modern and true to its source.'- Tom Holland, The New Statesman
'Page-turning...Nothing strikes a false note in her intricately created world.'- The Guardian
'Extraordinary...As great a retelling of Homer's epic Iliad as you will find.'- The Daily Mail
'Miller has combined scholarship with imagination to turn the most familiar war epic into a fresh,emotionally riveting and sexy page-turner.'- The Independent
'I loved Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles - a tender story of love between men and the pressure of living up to the masculine ideal.'- Jenni Murray, The Daily Telegraph
Madeline Miller
An expert in classical history,literature and mythology,American author Madeleine Miller leapt to public notice with her Orange Prize-winning global bestseller The Song of Achilles. Her second novel is an electrifying take on Greek Myth's most misunderstood deity: Circe.
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