Publisher's Synopsis
Homers Iliad continues to speak to us from the depths of time. It speaks of fifty one days of the last year of the war which will lead, a decade later, to the destruction and conquest of the city of Troy. It speaks of Gods, men, and heroes. Inspired by the idea of adapting the text for a public reading, Baricco re-reads and re-writes Homers Iliad, creating a euphony of twenty one voices using the original material. These Homeric characters are called to the stage to recount their stories of passion and blood, of great war and adventure.
