num_pages: 325
description: A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events—the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement—and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.
language: English
title: Omeros
titlecomplete: Omeros
genres: Fiction, Poetry, School, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, Epic, Mythology, 20th Century, Post Colonial
ratings_count: 2866
places: Saint Lucia
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: WH Smith Literary Award
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux