The Lost Books Of The Odyssey Av Zachary Mason

<p>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 sets sail again to repeat his voyage; he comes back to find Penelope is dead.<br><br>In these forty-four retellings of passages from Homer''s <i>Odyssey</i>, 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, <i>The Lost Books of the Odyssey </i>seems destined to become a modern classic.</p>