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What better way to start the new year than with a book so wondrous that after reading it the entire world takes on new meaning?
Ransom retells the story of the death of Hector and of the brutalizing of his body by Achilles, of King Priam and his journey out of Troy and into the enemy camp to rescue his son’s battered body. It is a tale of men and gods, yes, and of fate and chance. But it is very much a book about story as well. It brings to vivid life the sweat and blood and stench of battle, the fears and sorrows of men and women, the overpowering love of family, and also the overarching
forces that pull us toward the heavens, pitch us into the depths of hell. One such force is the telling of tales, the discovery of new ways of seeing what we thought we knew. Malouf’s prose, always possessed of lyricism and power, here takes on an authority—and beauty—of Homeric, even Shakespearean, proportions