Description
A tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, "Ransom" is a retelling of one of the most famous stories in all of literature--Achilles's slaughter and desecration of Hector, and Priam's attempt to ransom his son's body in Homer's "The Iliad."
Publication
North Sydney, N.S.W. : Knopf, 2009.
Media reviews
"While Malouf can write brilliantly in the "low" register of a Somax or describe nature with a Wordsworthian attentiveness, he is equally convincing in suggesting the grave diction of epic, as when Priam reflects on what the immortal gods can never experience -- the sweetness inherent in our
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That this tender novel lingers so long and hauntingly in the mind is a testament both to Malouf’s poetry and to his reverence for the endless power of myth.
"As it is, Ransom falls between the two stools: neither true enough to Homer, nor sufficiently untrue to him either."
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Original publication date
2009
Physical description
224 p.; 22 cm
ISBN
9781741668377