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The Songs of the Kings

The Songs of the Kings

Unsworth, Barry

Paperback

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0525435247
ISBN13: 9780525435242
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Nov 14 2017
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.57
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
A brilliant retelling of an ancient myth, The Songs of the Kings offers up a different narrative of the Trojan War, one devoid of honor, wherein the mission to rescue Helen is a pretext for plundering Troy of its treasures. As the ships of the Greek fleet find themselves stalled in the straits at Aulis, waiting vainly for the gods to deliver more favorable winds, Odysseus cynically advances a call for the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter, Calchas the diviner interprets events for the reader, and a Homer-like figure called the Singer is persuaded to proclaim a tale of a just war to hide the corrupt motivations of those in power. But couched within the Singer's spin is a message at once timely and timeless: There is always another story. But it is the stories told by the strong, the songs of kings, that are believed in the end.

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