Madeline Miller

Gebundenes Buch

Galatea

Beschreibung

From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe, an enchanting short story that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion.

__A small hardback edition featuring a new afterword by Madeline Miller__

In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece - the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen - the gift of life. Now his wife, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own, and yearns for independence.

In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, she is locked away under the constant supervision of doctors and nurses. But with a daughter to rescue, she is determined to break free, whatever the cost...

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Praise for CIRCE

'A thrilling tour de force of imagination' Mail on Sunday

'A bold and subversive retelling' New York Times

'A novel to be gobbled greedily in one sitting' Observer

'A remarkable achievement' Sunday Times

Autor

Madeline Miller is the author of The Song of Achilles, which won the Orange Women's Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Stonewall Writer of the Year 2012, was an instant New York Times bestseller, and was translated into twenty-five languages. Miller holds an MA in Classics from Brown University, and she taught Latin, Greek and Shakespeare to high school students for over a decade. Her second novel Circe was a number one international bestseller and shortlisted for the Women's Prize. madelinemiller.com

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing / Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 646725
• Seitenzahl: 56
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 107mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 97g
• ISBN-13: 9781526652065
• ISBN-10: 1526652064
• Artikelnr.: 62716281

Rezensionen

Praise for Song of Achilles - ///

"At once a scholar's homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art....A book I could not put down." - Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House

"Sharply written, cleverly re-imagined. . . . Incredibly rewarding." - USA Today

"Wildly romantic [and] surprisingly suspenseful....[B]ringing those dark figures back to life, making them men again, and while she's at it, us[ing] her passionate companion piece to The Iliad as a subtle swipe at today's ongoing debate over gay marriage. Talk about updating the classics." - Time

"One of the best novelistic adaptations of Homer in recent memory." - Wall Street Journal

"Powerful, inventive, passionate, and beautifully

written." - Boston Globe

Praise for Circe - ///

"Circe,' [is] a bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story that manages to be both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right." - Alexandra Alter, New York Times

"One of the most amazing qualities of this novel [is]: We know how everything here turns out - we've known it for thousands of years - and yet in Miller's lush reimagining, the story feels harrowing and unexpected. The feminist light she shines on these events never distorts their original shape; it only illuminates details we hadn't noticed before." - Ron Charles, The Washington Post

"Miller's spell builds slowly, but by the last page you'll be in awe. In prose of dreamlike simplicity, she reimagines the myth of Circe." - People

"So vivid, so layered, you could get lost in it... Whether or not you think you like Greek Mythology, this is just great storytelling. It feels cinematic." - NPR's Here & Now

"The story of Circe's entanglement with Odysseus lasts far beyond the narrative of "The Odyssey," making for compelling material to revisit. But ultimately it's as a character that Circe stands apart....Through her elegant, psychologically acute prose, Miller gives us a rich female character who inhabits the spaces in between." - Colleen Abel, Minneapolis Star Tribune

'Wilson is excellently sinuous … Wilson brings out both the inherent comedy in this jeu d'esprit and Miller's deadly serious exposition of power and control. Both writer and actor are impressive at capturing the overlap between menace and playfulness'