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02432aam a22003498i 4500 001 B14E2896E4DA11E99FA2294397128E48 003 SILO 005 20191002010520 008 181213s2019 nyu 000 1 eng c 010 $a 2018059179 020 $a 159051971X 020 $a 9781590519714 (hardcover) 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c ICU $d DLC $d NjBwBT $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h swe 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PT9876.21.A45 $b S58513 2019 082 00 $a 839.73/74 $2 23 100 1 $a Kallifatides, Theodor, $d 1938- $e author. 240 10 $a Slaget om Troja. $l English 245 14 $a The siege of Troy / $c Theodor Kallifatides ; translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. 260 $a New York : $b Other Press, $c 2019. 263 $a 1909 300 $a 203 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a In this perceptive retelling of The Iliad, a young Greek teacher draws on the enduring power of myth to help her students cope with the terrors of Nazi occupation. Bombs fall over a Greek village during World War II, and a teacher takes her students to a cave for shelter. There she tells them about another war--when the Greeks besieged Troy. Day after day, she recounts how the Greeks suffer from thirst, heat, and homesickness, and how the opponents meet--army against army, man against man. Helmets are cleaved, heads fly, blood flows. And everything had begun when Prince Paris of Troy fell in love with king of Sparta Menelaus's wife, the beautiful Helen, and escaped with her to his homeland. Now Helen stands atop the city walls to witness the horrors set in motion by her flight. When her current and former loves face each other in battle, she knows that, whatever happens, she will be losing. Theodor Kallifatides provides remarkable psychological insight in his version of The Iliad, downplaying the role of the gods and delving into the mindsets of its mortal heroes. Homer's epic comes to life with a renewed urgency that allows us to experience events as though firsthand, and reveals timeless truths about the senselessness of war and what it means to be human. 651 0 $a Troy (Extinct city) $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Delargy, Marlaine, $e translator. 941 $a 4 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20200829014959.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20200509011241.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217025801.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20191002012136.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B14E2896E4DA11E99FA2294397128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search