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Son of Nobody.
'Son of Nobody' is a a brilliant retelling of the Trojan War from two commoners: an ancient soldier and modern scholar. Yann Martel lives in Saskatoon, SK. From the author of 'The Life of Pi' and 'The High Mountains of Portugal'.
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- ISBN: 9781039001503
- Physical Description: 352 pages
- Publisher: Canada : Knopf Canada, 2026.
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| Subject: | FICTION / Alternative History FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology FICTION / Literary |
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From the author of the international bestseller Life of Pi, a brilliant retelling of the Trojan War from two commoners: an ancient soldier and modern scholar.
âThe past is never done with: always the song continuesâ
Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it. Though it means leaving his daughter and fracturing marriage back home in Canada, this is the kind of career break he desperately needs.
In the depths of the Bodleian Library, Harlow discovers a lost account of the Trojan War, a glimpse into the founding of Western civilization itself. He names the epic poem The Psoad, after its protagonist, a Greek commoner identified as Psoas of Midea, but known to all as son of nobody.
As sole translator and interpreter of The Psoad, Harlow dedicates the poem and its footnotes to his daughter, Helen. Under his gaze, the text unlocks echoes of Ancient Greece into the present day, and a personal message to his beloved child appears. Despite the two-thousand-year gap between the two, a thread hasnât frayed: the universal song of homesickness and regret, of ambition, love, and grief.
In this masterpiece of myth, history, and domesticity, Son of Nobody explores how stories become facts, the price we pay to share them, and how we liveâthen, now, and always.
