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The Last World

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“A brilliant exercise in alternative literary history . . . Mr. Ransmayr’s book is all of a piece–intensely visualized, dense with magical images, and offering many obscure satisfactions.” —The New York Times Book Review

The poet Ovid, in his distress over his banishment from Rome, consigns the manuscript of his masterpiece, Metamorphoses, to the flames; years later, when rumors of his death reach Rome, his youthful admirer Cotta follows him to the remote Black Sea port of Tomi. Out of this ...