The Lost Books of the Odyssey

A New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With hypnotic 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.

Author: Zachary Mason
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 01/04/2011
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780312680466
ISBN10: 0312680465
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | American | 21st Century

About the Author

ZACHARY MASON is a computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence. He was a finalist for the 2008 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. He lives in California.