An Iliad: A Story of War by Alessandro Baricco

An Iliad: A Story of War

Alessandro Baricco with Ann Goldstein (Translator)

158 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction classics historical informative reflective slow-paced
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Alessandro Baricco recreates the siege of Troy through the voices of 21 Homeric characters. Sacrificing none of Homer's panoramic scope, he forgoes Homer's detachment and admits us to realms of subjective experience his predecessor never explored.

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