**From the bestselling and award-winning author of *Brooklyn* and *Nora Webster*** **"If there is a more brilliant writer than Toibin working today, I donβt know who that would be" Karen Joy Fowler, *Irish Times*** **"TΓ³ibΓn creates suspense out of the simplest emotions: fear, love and, most poign
House of Names
β Scribed by Toibin, Colm
- Book ID
- 109728330
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan Australia
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 197 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781760552770
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β¦ Synopsis
From the bestselling and award-winning author of Brooklyn and Nora Webster
"If there is a more brilliant writer than Toibin working today, I don't know who that would be" Karen Joy Fowler,Irish Times
"TΓ³ibΓn creates suspense out of the simplest emotions: fear, love and, most poignantly, regret" TIME
From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm TΓ³ibΓn comes this ambitious, violent and modern retelling of one of our oldest and most enduring stories.
I HAVE BEEN ACQUAINTED WITH THE SMELL OF DEATH.
Judged, despised, cursed by gods she has long since lost faith in, the murderess Clytemnestra tells of the deception of Agamemnon , how he sacrificed her eldest daughter - her beloved Iphigenia - to the Trojan campaign; how Clytemnestra used what power she had, seducing the prisoner Aegisthus , turning the government against its lord; plotting the many long years until...
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