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Zachary Mason’s brilliant and beguiling debut novel, *The Lost Books of the Odyssey*, reimagines Homer’s classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer’s original that taken together open up this classic Greek myth to endless reverberating interpretations. *The Lost Books of the Odyssey* is punctuated with great wit, beauty, and playfulness; it is a daring literary page-turner that marks the emergence of an extraordinary new talent.
Is The Lost Books of the Odyssey appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
This literary fantasy reimagines Homer's Odyssey through experimental storytelling with moderate mythic violence typical of Greek epic tales (battles, monsters, deaths). Sophisticated narrative structure and philosophical themes require mature reading comprehension.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, mild sexual content, and clean language. Content notes include death, violence, and war.
Who'll love this
Readers who love Greek mythology and creative retellings will enjoy these mind-bending alternative versions of Odysseus's adventures.