After ten years journeying Odysseus returns, again and again, to Ithaca. Each time he finds something different: his patient wife Penelope has betrayed him and married; his arrival accelerates time and he watches his family age and die in front of him; he walks into an empty house in ruins; he returns but is so bored he set sail again to repeat his voyage; he comes back to find Penelope is dead. 

In these forty-four retellings of passages from The Odyssey, Zachary Mason uses Homer's linear narrative and explodes it: presenting alternative and contradictory fragments of familiar stories — the Trojan Horse, the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens — allowing us to see Homer's masterpiece afresh. Elegant, provocative and utterly fascinating, The Lost Books of the Odyssey seems destined to become a modern classic. 

Condition: Pre-loved book. Minor yellowing of pages. Otherwise in good condition.

Format: Paperback
Year published: 2011
Pages: 333
Sub-genre: Fantasy, retelling, historical fiction
Imprint: Vintage