Ransom
By: David Malouf.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780307378774
Subjects: Achilles (Greek mythology) -- Fiction; Priam (Greek mythology) -- Fiction; Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction; Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: A tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, "Ransom" is a retelling of one of the most famous stories in all of literature--Achilles's slaughter and desecration of Hector, and Priam's attempt to ransom his son's body in Homer's "The Iliad."