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Son of Nobody [electronic resource]

Martel, Yann2026

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Summary

'The past is never done with – always the song continues.'Harlow Donne has sacrificed his life to the study of the classical world. So when he is invited to Oxford University to work on an obscure collection of papyrus fragments, it is an academic's dream come true. He must leave behind his daughter and wife in Canada, but offers like this don't come twice and he badly needs a change of fortune. Then, while studying in the Bodleian Library, he unearths a completely undiscovered account of the Trojan War, a glimpse into the founding of Western civilisation itself. He names the poem The Psoad, after its protagonist, a commoner identified only as Psoas, the son of nobody.As sole translator and author of The Psoad, Harlow dedicates the poem and its footnotes to his daughter Helen, allowing the text to unlock the echoes of the ancient Greeks into the present day, and to share a personal message with his beloved child. Despite the 2000-year gap between the two, one thread hasn't frayed: the universal song of homesickness and regret, of ambition, love and grief.