House of Odysseus
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Claire North. (2023). House of Odysseus. Unabridged Hachette Audio.

Claire North. 2023. House of Odysseus. Hachette Audio.

Claire North, House of Odysseus. Hachette Audio, 2023.

Claire North. House of Odysseus. Unabridged Hachette Audio, 2023.

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This "powerful, fresh, and unflinching" reimagining from the award-winning author of the Penelope trilogy breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men (Jennifer Saint).

On the isle of Ithaca, queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. Many years ago, her husband Odysseus sailed to war with Troy and never came home. In his absence, Penelope uses all her cunning to keep the peace—a peace that is shattered by the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra.
Orestes' hands are stained with his mother's blood. Not so long ago, the son of Agamemnon took Queen Clytemnestra's life on Ithaca's sands. Now, wracked with guilt, he is slowly losing his mind. But a king cannot be seen to be weak, and Elektra has brought him to Ithaca to keep him safe from the ambitious men of Mycenae.
Penelope knows destruction will follow in his wake as surely as the furies circle him. His uncle Menelaus, the battle-hungry king of Sparta, longs for Orestes' throne—and if he can seize it, no one will be safe from his violent whims.
Trapped between two mad kings, Penelope fights to keep her home from being crushed by a war that stretches from Mycenae and Sparta to the summit of Mount Olympus itself. Her only allies are Elektra, desperate to protect her brother, and Helen of Troy, Menelaus' wife. And watching over them all is the goddess Aphrodite, who has plans of her own.
Each woman has a secret. And their secrets will shape the world.

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     March 1, 2023
     

     The World Fantasy Award--winning North works in multiple genres, here continuing a trilogy revisiting the Odyssey from a female perspective and thus joining many recent feminist retellings of Greek mythology. Awaiting her husband's return, Penelope is caught between guilt-ridden, mother-murdering Orestes and his power-hungry uncle, Menelaus, king of Sparta, as war rages around them. With a 30,000-copy first printing. Prepub Alert.

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     North (Ithaca) veers between the snarky and the dramatic in her clumsy revisionist take on Greek mythology. Goddess Aphrodite narrates the intrigue on Ithaca, the island kingdom once ruled by Odysseus, who is still making his way back home after the Trojan War. His wife, Penelope, who’s been trying to maintain order during his long absence, gets a new challenge after the arrival of Agamemnon’s children, Orestes and Elektra. Orestes, the ruler of Mycenae, who’d avenged his father’s death by killing his mother, is plagued by the Furies for his matricide, and Elektra seeks guidance from Penelope about the best way to prevent her brother’s throne from being usurped. The saga also includes an investigation into a servant’s murder, and a twist involving Helen of Troy. North attempts to make Aphrodite relatable by injecting her narration with modern usage, but too often gets mired in clunky prose (“Now I’m open-minded about basically everything in the realms of consensual bodily exploration, and I can see where Zeus was coming from, but even so, I doubt the execution of the act was half as exciting in reality as he thought it was going to be in his overactive imagination”). This falls short of other classical updates, including Jennifer Saint’s Atalanta.

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     North's novels are triumphs of conception and execution, and, until now, she has never covered the same ground twice. Ithaca (2022) brilliantly reimagined the Greek myth of Odysseus by approaching the story from the perspective of Penelope, Odysseus' wife, to explain her experience while her husband tried to make his way back home from the Trojan War. In this sequel, the fragile peace Penelope has established on the island of Ithaca is threatened when Elektra arrives with her broken and unstable brother, Orestes, king of Mycenae, shortly after he has murdered their mother, Clytemnestra. Penelope knows Orestes' uncle will follow him in a bid to seize the crown. War is brewing and North tells the tale via the machinations of its women. Her literary voice changes depending on the story, and her prose here is elegant, poetic, and gorgeously descriptive. (The book begins: "They came at sunset to my temple door, torches burning. The fire they carried was thin against the scarlet west and picked the bronze lines of their helmets out in gold.") This is a stunning novel.

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This "powerful, fresh, and unflinching" reimagining from the award-winning author of the Penelope trilogy breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men (Jennifer Saint).

On the isle of Ithaca, queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. Many years ago, her husband Odysseus sailed to war with Troy and never came home. In his absence, Penelope uses all her cunning to keep the peace—a peace that is shattered by the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra.
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Penelope knows destruction will follow in his wake as surely as the furies circle him....

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