Sách - The Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes (UK edition, paperback)

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Publisher: Macmillan UK

Origin: United Kingdom (Imported)

ISBN 13: 9781529057133

Condition: Brandnew

Binding: paperback

Pages: 352

Dimensons: 197 x 130 x 24 | 248 (gram)

---------------------------------------- From the Women's Prize-shortlisted author Natalie Haynes comes a stunning reimagining of the Oedipus and Antigone myths, revealing a new side of an ancient story . . .

A powerful retelling of Oedipus and Antigone from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked, from Natalie Haynes, the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships and the Sunday Times bestseller Stone Blind.My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents . . .Jocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband.Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since the day of her parents' tragic s a decade earlier, she has always longed to feel safe with the family she still has. But with a single act of violence, all that is about to change.With the turn of these two events, a tragedy is set in motion. But not as you know it.'Haynes balances a fresh take on the material . . . giving new voice to the often-overlooked but fascinating Jocasta and Ismene.' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe.

Biographical Note

Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Amber Fury, A Thousand Ships, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, and Stone Blind, which was a Sunday Times bestseller. Her non-fiction book about women in Greek Myth, Pandora's Jar, was a New York Times bestseller in 2022. She was written and performed eight series of her BBC Radio 4 show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics. In 2015, she was awarded the Classical Association Prize for her work in bringing Classics to a wider aunce. The Children of Jocasta is her second novel.

Giá sản phẩm trên Tiki đã bao gồm thuế theo luật hiện hành. Bên cạnh đó, tuỳ vào loại sản phẩm, hình thức và địa chỉ giao hàng mà có thể phát sinh thêm chi phí khác như phí vận chuyển, phụ phí hàng cồng kềnh, thuế nhập khẩu (đối với đơn hàng giao từ nước ngoài có giá trị trên 1 triệu đồng).....