Ithaka - Couverture rigide

Geras, Adèle

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0152056033 ISBN 13 : 9780152056032

Editeur : HMH Books for Young Readers, 2006

Synopsis

Many years have passed since the end of the Trojan War, and Penelope is still waiting for her husband, Odysseus, to return home. The city of Ithaka is overrun with uncouth suitors from the surrounding islands who are vying to win Penelope's hand in marriage, thereby gaining control of the land. When a naked, half-drowned man washes up on the beach, everything changes. . . .

Told through the eyes of Klymene, a young girl who is like a daughter to Penelope--and who longs for more than friendship from the young prince Telemachus--Ithaka captures the quiet strength and patience of a woman's enduring love for her husband and the ensuing chaos that threatens all as Penelope is pressured to remarry.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Penelope, faithful and devoted wife of Odysseus, has been waiting for more than ten years for her husband to return to their home, Ithaka, a beautiful island in the blue waters of the Ionian Sea. There has been no word from him since the end of the war in Troy and she has no idea whether he survived the sack of the city. Klymene is Penelope's young handmaiden, and when the peace of Ithaka is shattered by the arrival of strangers ambitious for the hand of her mistress, she too becomes caught up in passions inspired by the gods . . .

This powerfully imagined novel is not a retelling of Homer's Odyssey - it is the story of the women left behind.

'I'd pretty mcuh defy anyone not to enjoy it' Guardian Unlimited

'An absorbing, sweeping novel that grabs readers from the touching opening page' The Bookseller

Présentation de l'éditeur

Many years have passed since the end of the Trojan War, and Penelope is still waiting for her husband, Odysseus, to return home. The city of Ithaka is overrun with uncouth suitors from the surrounding islands who are vying to win Penelope's hand in marriage, thereby gaining control of the land. When a naked, half-drowned man washes up on the beach, everything changes. . . .

Told through the eyes of Klymene, a young girl who is like a daughter to Penelope--and who longs for more than friendship from the young prince Telemachus-- Ithaka captures the quiet strength and patience of a woman's enduring love for her husband and the ensuing chaos that threatens all as Penelope is pressured to remarry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0152056033
• ISBN 13: 9780152056032
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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