{"product_id":"son-of-nobody-by-yann-martel","title":"Son of Nobody by Yann Martel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFor fans of Homer’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIliad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, a brilliantly imagined story from the author of the international bestseller\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLife of Pi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat if Homer’s epics were not the only ancient tales of the Trojan War? In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSon of Nobody\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Yann Martel composes a new legend: the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePsoad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs sole translator and interpreter of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePsoad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSon of Nobody\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mahala Independent Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63629588201802,"sku":"9781838859084","price":24.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/5662\/5482\/files\/9781838859084.jpg?v=1790067931","url":"https:\/\/mahala.bg\/products\/son-of-nobody-by-yann-martel","provider":"Mahala Independent Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}