Book description
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;…
Why read it?
2 authors picked The Lost Books of the Odyssey as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I was very familiar with Homer's The Odyssey, but this was a whole new take on it. It consists of short tales that are spinoffs or what-might-have-been variations. Clever, beautifully written, moving.
I was astonished that Mason invented forty-four short versions of Odysseus’ story, under the clever pretense that these were found on an ancient manuscript.
Since I like sci-fi and supernatural books, I thoroughly enjoyed the creative and original nature of these stories. Besides being fun, they also made me re-think the original Homeric tale that this work sort of puts into a blender.
From Jonathan's list on modern books that retell the story of Odysseus, the traveling hero.
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