04022cam a2200913 4500 527971546 TxAuBib 20211107120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781590519721 1590519728 B07LDTZMYX Amazon cb7bb310-a62b-498b-92f1-aeb483801437 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 607914 607914 607914 4617821 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kallifatides, Theodor. The Siege of Troy [Libby] : A Novel. Other Press, 2019. World War II. helen. Friendship. literary fiction. War. Mythology. translation. Historical. romance. Greek mythology. fairytale. Folklore. fairy tale. Fiction. germany. Achilles . novels. love. Coming of age. ww2. first love. WW II . adversity. Historical Fiction. Drama. Classics. WWII. Homer. Folktales. Greece. World War 2. middle school. fairy tales. Alternate History. Warriors. fiction books. Paris. historical novels. trojans. illiad. historical fiction novels. wwii books. historical fiction books. student teacher. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1327kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Mythology. Historical Fiction. HTML:<b>In this perceptive retelling of <i>The Iliad</i>, a young Greek teacher draws on the enduring power of myth to help her students cope with the terrors of Nazi occupation.</b><br /> Bombs fall over a Greek village during World War II, and a teacher takes her students to a cave for shelter. There she tells them about another war—when the Greeks besieged Troy. Day after day, she recounts how the Greeks suffer from thirst, heat, and homesickness, and how the opponents meet—army against army, man against man. Helmets are cleaved, heads fly, blood flows. And everything had begun when Prince Paris of Troy fell in love with king of Sparta Menelaus's wife, the beautiful Helen, and escaped with her to his homeland. Now Helen stands atop the city walls to witness the horrors set in motion by her flight. When her current and former loves face each other in battle, she knows that, whatever happens, she will be losing.<br /> <br /> Theodor Kallifatides provides remarkable psychological insight in his version of <i>The Iliad</i>, downplaying the role of the gods and delving into the mindsets of its mortal heroes. Homer's epic comes to life with a renewed urgency that allows us to experience events as though firsthand, and reveals timeless truths about the senselessness of war and what it means to be human. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Delargy, Marlaine. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=cb7bb310-a62b-498b-92f1-aeb483801437&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=cb7bb310-a62b-498b-92f1-aeb483801437&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=cb7bb310-a62b-498b-92f1-aeb483801437&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)