{"product_id":"son-of-nobody-1","title":"Son of Nobody","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSon of Nobody\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eYann Martel\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781324118138\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eW. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e352\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if Homer's epics were not the only ancient tales of the Trojan War? In \u003cem\u003eSon of Nobody\u003c\/em\u003e, Yann Martel composes a new legend: the \u003cem\u003ePsoad\u003c\/em\u003e, an Ancient Greek epic in free verse that follows a goatherd's son, Psoas of Midea, who leaves his wife and family to fight at Troy. Unlike Odysseus's legend, this commoner's story was lost to time--until Harlow Donne, a Canadian academic who has left his own wife and daughter behind to study at Oxford, discovers its relics nearly thirty centuries later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs sole translator and interpreter of the \u003cem\u003ePsoad\u003c\/em\u003e, Harlow dedicates the poem and its footnotes to his daughter, Helen. Under his gaze, a personal message to his beloved child appears in the ancient text, like a palimpsest. Despite the thousands of years and hundreds of miles that separate Psoas, Odysseus, and Agamemnon from Harlow, a thread hasn't frayed, it remains: the universal song of homesickness and regret, of love, ambition, and grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eSon of Nobody\u003c\/em\u003e takes readers from the plains of Troy to the halls of Oxford, from the classical to the contemporary, from ancient verses to modern footnotes. It is a dazzling, masterful feat of myth, history, and domesticity that explores how stories become facts, the price we pay to share them, and how we live--then, now, always.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Son of Nobody | Yann Martel | Hardcover | 9781324118138 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks E 1784155","offer_id":67623002439832,"sku":"1784155","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81Ft07uIAtL_83493ae3-bef3-4813-9af8-cacdb0f274e1.jpg?v=1790957706","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/son-of-nobody-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}