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Son of Nobody: A Novel

By (author) Yann Martel

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Homerâ€™s Iliad and Odyssey were not the only ancient tales of the Trojan War. In Son of Nobody, Yann Martel composes a new legend: the Psoad, an epic in free verse that follows a goatherdâ€™s son, Psoas of Midea, who leaves his wife and family to fight at Troy. Psoas meets his doom and the poem of his life is lostâ€”until a Canadian academic studying at Oxford, Harlow Donne, discovers its relics thirty centuries later. As Harlow assembles and comments on the fragments in footnotes, he retrieves memories of his wife and daughter and grapples with questions of ambition, family, and responsibility in both the ancient and modern worlds. Son of Nobody upends the regal perspective of traditional epics and shows that â€œthe past is never done with, that always there are parallels and returns and repetitions, always the song continues.â€ Readers of Madeline Millerâ€™s The Song of Achilles and Emily Wilsonâ€™s The Iliad will revel in this breathtaking feat of the imagination.

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Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2017).

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