Ransom: A Novel

Ransom: A Novel

In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer€s <i>Iliad</i>€"one of the most famous passages in all of literature.<br> <br>This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus in the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and was in turn savaged by Achilles. A moving tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, <i>Ransom </i>is incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and its unstated imperative that we imagine our lives in the glow of fellow feeling.