GoodReads (Print) Son of Nobody Book Giveaway
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Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Son of Nobody by Yann Martel. Long before Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey became the defining stories of the Trojan War, other tales existed. In this novel, Martel imagines one of them: the Psoad, an epic in free verse that follows Psoas of Midea, the son of a goatherd who leaves behind his wife and children to fight at Troy. Psoas meets a tragic end, and the poem chronicling his life disappears, until thirty centuries later, when Harlow Donne, a Canadian scholar at Oxford, uncovers its surviving fragments.
As Harlow pieces together the remnants and annotates them, he finds himself drawn into his own past, recalling his wife and daughter while wrestling with the timeless tensions between ambition, duty, and family. The novel overturns the noble, king‑centered lens of traditional epics, revealing instead how history echoes endlessly, how patterns repeat, and how the song never truly ends. Fans of Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles and Emily Wilson’s The Iliad will be captivated by this imaginative re‑envisioning of ancient myth.
