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 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: Literature, Fiction, Poetry, 20th Century, Post Colonial, Epic, School, Mythology, Nobel Prize, Classics
ratings_count: 2867
places: Saint Lucia
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: WH Smith Literary Award
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux