An Iliad
By: Alessandro Baricco ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein
Contributors: Homer
Publisher: Canongate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781841959016
Subjects: Trojan War; Fiction
Work titles: Omero, Iliade
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2006.

Translated from the Italian.