Name: The Song of Achilles
SKU: 64761240
Price: 692.00 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Author: Madeline Miller
ISBN: 9789389000221

Type

Physical Book

Author

Madeline Miller

Publisher

Bloomsbury India

Year

2019

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.2x13.3x2.4 cm

ISBN13

9789389000221

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller (Author) · Bloomsbury India · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Song of Achilles"

But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfil his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him

Winner of the Orange women''s Prize for fiction The international sensation a Sunday Times and new York Times bestseller ''captivating'' Donna tartt ''I loved it'' J K Rowling ''ravishingly vivid'' Emma Donoghue 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 fulfil 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. ''A book I could not put down'' Ann Patchett ?an exciting, sexy, violent Superman version of the Iliad? guardian ?sexy, dangerous, mystical? Bettany Hughes.

Madeline Miller

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She holds a Master's degree in Classical Languages. For the past ten years, she has been a teacher of Latin, Greek, and Shakespeare with high school students. She has also studied Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and in the playwriting department at the Yale School of Drama, where she specialized in adapting classical texts to modern forms. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches and writes.

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