Son of Nobody: A Novel

For fans of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, a brilliantly imagined story from the author of the international bestseller Life of Pi

What if Homer's epics were not the only ancient tales of the Trojan War? In Son of Nobody, Yann Martel composes a new legend: the Psoad, an Ancient Greek epic in free verse that follows a goatherd's son, Psoas of Midea, who leaves his wife and family to fight at Troy. Unlike Odysseus's legend, this commoner's story was lost to time-until Harlow Donne, a Canadian acad...